SS7 is a whole lot easier to maintain that SS6.5. There are no devices and it handles the expanding and shrinking interally. You don't have to have a SQL Server Admin once it is up and running. So says the marketing engine of MS 8-).
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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.