>Hi Tracy
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>I like your ideas., like using Interop for messaging and synchronising between VFP and .Net and getting .Net to do it's own data access.
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>Have received a lot of good material from this thread, and we now need to brainstorm a few architectures and then Mock Up and benchmark the performance aspects of the various architectures.
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>Thanks for your input

I realize much of what you do is probably covered by an NDA, but when you get your proof of concepts done and make a decision,please post which route you took and why. It may benefit others down the road. Good luck!