>A customer is having an issue of VFP9 application being slow (when used from desktops). The IT guy sent me the following message:
>"The server is located in our corporate data center with slightly more latency, about 19ms, that doesn't seem like it should be this slow though."
>Is 19ms latency very bad and could cause the application being slow? What are the typical ranges of latency?

19ms points to something like a dedicated internet connection, as Al already described. Working "file handles", which vfp does with dbf/cdx/fpt data stores runs not well with that. Either get a real server backend or use remote access to run vfp instances on the net where the dbf data is sitting. If you already use a real server (why no info entered, which clearly is relevant??), try to replace chatty exchanges with chunky ones in your app

regards

thomas