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>It's certainly true that a potential conflict exists, but this is really no different than VFP and SQL Server. Microsoft clearly has an incentive to make their front-end products work better with SQL Server than competing products. I'm not saying MS is doing this, but any time a company sells multiple types of software that have to work together this potential conflict exists.

Yes but VFP uses stadard technologies to access server databases (ODBC/ADO)
which are available from many vendors many times for the makers of the "other" databases as well - so even if MS is making thier technology work better with SQL Server, you still have other options

Arnon