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>As for using the dbf's directly, well that will always be possible, but I think you will see the desire for this approach diminishing in the future as mom and pop businesses want to create an internet presense. When they want to start getting orders over the net they will want their data visible over the net and dbf's aren't a very good way to provide this for a number of reasons.

Out of curiosity, Jim, what are these reasons? It seems to me that the most important requirement for making information available of the web is speed of access, and as we know, VFP is nearly peerless here.