>Yes, Sylvain, there is little any more that is straightforward and simple, even when it feels like it should be and some suggest that it is.
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>Now imagine a world with VFP as mid-level, with OCXs, and some SQL product at back end, and who knows what at front end! All this will have to be maintained (bug fixes and new features) as well as enhanced, probably across hundreds of machines.
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>When will we find the "window" to do this stuff? How will it all be synchronized? etc.
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>There is a real need to continue to have s SINGLE product (VFP) which can meet the needs of thousands of small/medium businesses, with at most the concomitant deployment of DCOM but with nothing else being mandatory to keep afloat and to be able to grow.
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>Cheers,
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>Jim N
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Jim, this exists now. With a web-based application you can get all the good stuff with less support. The COM/DCOM component runs in either IIS or MTS or even ISAPI. VFP will not solve all the problems. We have users spread all over the world that need access to a centralized database. VFP alone can't solve that problem.