1.) The vfp data engine is an extremely good choice for web apps. Microsoft is now scrambling to implement a similarly easy to use database in WebMatrix. 24/7 is possible using techniques that have been around with VFP desktop apps for years. And SQL as a backend is always available for something more robust..

2.) NotePad serves PHP (#1 in web) developers extremely well because they don't want to deal with the bloat that is in everything Microsoft. And add-ons like WordPress make it even easier to put together web sites. Similar things are planned for ActiveVFP.

3.) VFP mtdlls are extremely scalable and will satisfy 95% of the scalability needs of all web sites out there. Again, this is proven by the many sites using them and again, read Calvin's paper because you obviously don't know what you're talking about in this regard.

>To recap:
>(1) The VFP data engine is not a good choice for a web based application. 24/7 availability is not possible if you need to backup or change data structures.
>(2) Notepad is not an ideal IDE.
>(3) VFP MTDLLs are not robust enough or scaleable enough for web based applications.

>In return can you explain what you consider to be the technical shortcomings of an ASP.NET based solution ?