Hi Tim...
Nice name!

Oracle works fine as a back end.
The liscencing is not actually that much we found we could almost throw
in a runtime version of Oracle for free...

There are many differences with Oracle and VFP.

If you are designing from scratch try the Oracle Objects for OLE
OLE Server .....Stuff...

8i CD just came out... Reccomend Linux with 8i as a backend....

The programming from foxpro is fairly straight forward...

Except lokcing...
See the post above in Client Server How many users SQL*Server/Oracle.

for my stategy on this...

Good Luck and Skål!!!!