>Yes, moving to SQL is a good long term solution, which I am well aware of and have been working toward. However, due to the size of our applications, we are a long way from being able to implement it.
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>We are under pressure to move to a more current OS for our server long before we will be able to transform our backend.

Another developer I know says he has had great success using a linux server with Samba for hosting shared DBFs.