> IMHO, n-tier design is one area where VBers are well-ahead of the race than we (VFPers) are as an enterprise-level developers. To me, n-tier is not new anymore. It is now. We need more VFP n-tier "mentors" to step up and lead us.

One of the tiers in an n-tier design is always data, which means that 99.99% of the VB programmers still don't know jack!