>A follow-up - take a look at what Microsoft has done with SQL Server. It has slowly been eating Oracle's lunch. Plenty of case studies in the last year where companies have pushed out Oracle and SAP in favor of SQL Server, and even more where SQL Server edged Oracle in vendor selections.
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>So I think that's an exception (and surely not the only one!) to your Titanic analogy.

I like SQL Server - and Fox Pro makes for a great SQL front end (GUI Client).

VFP - Stored Procedures and Pass Through SQL are what it's all about dude!