For the MS position on its database products, on the web you and any of your clients can get the following document: Choosing the Appropriate Database Development Tool Robert Green November 1996 See URL http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/library . VFP5.5 is coming and is rumored to be released in March. VFP6 is under development and will probably be released in the fall. This will give the announced fall '97 Developer Conference something current to talk about (<g>). Microsoft's bug tracking system in the "Boston" Developer Studio stuff is written in Visual FoxPro. It is pure crap that these know-nothing consultants are feeding to their clients and charging them for it, too. In many cases, these consultants have ulterior motives for pushing the demise of a MS product, because they offer consulting and training in a competitor's product. I have seen at least one case of this where a consulting firm was trashing FoxPro with quotes eeringly like the ones that you have listed only to push the training and consulting services for PowerBuilder. While PowerBuilder seems to be at least a reasonable client/server tool, as is Visual FoxPro, PB is not a good desktop database tool. The folks who comment on FoxPro's limited multi-user abilities aren't really commenting on FoxPro but the OS environment FoxPro is working in. FoxPro is great, but it can't fix a Windows for WorkGroups limitation, nor a Novell one. Anyway, you get my drift. Hope some of this helps your situation. ==Carl Carl J. Warner Procurement Operations Computer Administrator Southern Region HQ Raytheon Engineers & Constructors Birmingham, AL > > One of my customers is afraid of letting us develop > an application for him using VFP. He has good experience with our software > company, using another tool, and he knows we can get the job done using > VFP. > > When VFP3 came out he refused to use it since it was a new tool. Also, he > received a BAD opinion from a well known consulting group. > He asked : "What is the positioning of Microsoft Visual Foxpro 3.0 ?" > They answered : "... The product does include limited multi-user > capabilities ... The underlying data management technology is simply not > robust enough for any application serious enough to require multi-user > support ... We would urge you to consider appropriate client/server > development tools" > > Now, I am trying to convince him to use VFP5 for a new application. > Again, he consulted the same group and was told that VFP is going to be > discontinued after 5.0 . > Sure - we have all heard those rumors for quit a while. > > HELP ME IF YOU CAN -- I am trying to gather as much information as possible > to convince him that his consultant is wrong.