Edwin, John-

Hmph. Nope. I respectfully disagree. A customer is what a company cares about. How they add customers, edit customers, banish them from all branches is much more volatile than the information about a customer.

If you move your client's VFP DBC to an OO database...you better dang well take their customer data with you. And that's gonna be much easier to transfer if you have a well designed relation database.

My .02 U.S. Now, I'm gonna be struck by lightening for sure!

>Very good point. No, outstanding point.
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>> I think there has been one change with n-tier development. It is not just the data that will outlive our application, but the business objects that live at the enterprise level.