Hi JohnP.

>If you wish to flame me... please give me the courtesy and send me the flame mail directly... :)
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Me? Flame? Nahhh. I did CC the posting to you did I not? :) And I frankly was hoping for a response and I thank you for it.

>Seriously, I did not give John a cookbook answer. Rather, I just made the point that n-tier apps are all about design, not so much the tools. To say that small apps/companies could not achieve the benefits of n-tier design is flat out wrong. Also, to say that all n-tier apps are complex is also flat out wrong.
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Not sure what JohnK said, but did he not make a point that n-tier adds a degree of complexity? And are you saying that that is flat out wrong too?

>And no, there is NOT only one right way to solve a problem...
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... and will you also acknowledge that n-tier architecture (UI, Domain, Storage) will make your methodology ready for replacing the UI by a browser, storage by a DBMS and that this is the primary reason to adopt this architecture, i.e. that these are exhaustively the benefits of n-tier design?

... that you do not have to follow that way in VFP, and that frankly VFP is probably not the best tool if your objectives are as stated in the previous section?

... and thus that n-tier without the tools is not really desirable because there is a price to pay in overhead, and that if your application requires another regrouping of objects, that it might be a good idea to follow that lead?

Am I flaming? :)

Marc