>I never heard MS say "it's impossible to make local engine with with 64-bit OS". What I *did* hear them say was that 32 and 64 bit apps would not be able to access the same tables because the indexes would need to be different.

I sit corrected. However, the hurdle was presented as "the indexing engine cannot do that", as far as I remember. And I did refresh my memory during one of the rounds of this, probably a year or two ago when Ken spilled more beans - I searched the messages for the months preceding the announcement of VFP7.