>My point is, there seems to be little reason to use proprietary GUI's at the presentation tier. A browser works just fine, especially when you consider a trend towards thin client and presentation tiers that are nothing but screen-scrapers.

The Vancouver Foxpro User Group was fortunate enough to have Ken Levy and Robert Green speak to us this summer. Both stressed the fact that we won't be building as many VFP only apps in the future. HTML front end, VFP middle and whatever on the backend. Hmm... this should start making the VB guys really paranoid. :-)