>Hi All,
>
>No you do not have to convince me of the strenght of VFP.
>
>A lot of times my clients ask me the question:
>
>Why not developped my application in Access?
>
>I do not know (and dont want to know either) much about Access except
>that is a relational database and supposed to be object-oriented.
>
>Can anybody who has knowledge of both give me his opinion on the
>strenghts of VFP versus Access?
>
>This way I might look a bit less stupid next time someone asks
>me that question??
>
>:)
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Pascal

The first thing I tell people is "Look how they are marketed and packaged". Access is included with Office -- an enduser tool -- and is intended for small desktop databases. VFP is included with Visual Studion -- a developer tool -- and is intended for creating industrial strength, enterprise or departmental database applications.