Nick,

As you know, it is my contention that *most* small/medium businesses (and there are exponentially more of them than magacorps) require and *want* a "SIMPLE" (ie low overhead, low complexity) application(s), even for multi-user.

Right now we can do most anything we want to, and the user wants with VFP. But... when our users see sexy new thing-X at some place and asks us to deliver similar or better, we will surely be unable to deliver when it is admitted that VFP's future is mid-tier. There simply is no incentive to *improve* the GUI/front-end capabilities nor the database/table functionality. Sure, use VB or HTML or IE is easy to say, but what it really does is "require ABCD...XYZ abbreviations. This is more complex. This is (far) more costly. This is subject to multiple points-of-failure/maintenance irregularities, etc. Just look at how many times, right here on UT, someone having problems with ODBC is told to upgrade their release.

Trends should be what we make them, and *not* what MS dictates.

Jim N

>>Secondly, not all shops will need monster n-tier solutions. There will always be a need for a single-tier applications and VFP fits that job to perfection.
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>I agree. I just finished a single-user electric billing application for the small electric company, and you know... it didn't require any ABCD...XYZ abbreviations except VFP.
>:-)
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>Nick