>>I had not thought of using xcase for that purpose.
Well worth it- get the demo and experiment replicating your fox database in SQL and moving data between the two.
Ironic that a company bought for its algorithms couldn't keep the responsible dudes happy for a bit longer. Makes an opportunity for you, I guess! My advice: make the special algorithms your baby.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1