Sure, start with that good old Access, and when you need to grow just hop on that good old SQL-Server band wagon. It's the best way to make money for M$.

It's just a marketing thing. Them vs Us. So all you have to do is sell a solution, not a development concept.

Maybe that guys proposal should include a ROI? Do we have anything like that in VFP land?

__Stephen


>I have a gut feeling that the standard response to that problem would be to use Access2000 alone.
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>>Yres, but these seminars are targeted to existing Access users. VFP can play with SQL Server too, probably better than Access2000 (having seen Access2000 yet).
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>>Anyway, M$ can try to sell SQL Server everywhere, but how am I supposed to tell a small business that in order to sell them a system, they need to install and administer a SQL Server backend? Not all business can afford to put somebody even on part time basis administering a SQL Server backend.
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>>>I disagree. Using Access2000 and SQL Server 7.0 backend is going to be very popular and be a competitor to VFP. MS wants SQL Server everywhere and has had free seminars on moving Access/Jet to Access2000/SS7.