Hi, thanks for the response. We are already researching MySQL.

>Do you absolutely require access to VFP databases? If this is not in your requirements directly, I would suggest you take a serious look at MySQL server, Oracle 8 (Commercial and available for Linux now), or Sybase available download from Red Hat Software.
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>If I were choosing best cost/performance, MySQL would nail all of the above hands down. It is about $200.00 USD for commercial (non-personal use) and runs circles around Microsoft SQL server on similarly equipped hardware.
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>You could access MySQL server with ODBC in VFP or VB or VC++ clients to plug data into it from VFP tables if you really need the information to flow from there.
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>Otherwise, I would recommend hiring somebody with Perl programming or PHP3 (www.php3.com/net) skills. There are quite a few impressive web sites that are driven by Linux and MySQL. Slashdot.org and Freshmeat.net are prime examples of MySQL and Perl (programming language used for CGI scripting, etc.).