Hi Evan

SNIP

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>You could build a specific application that runs on NT server (in VFP) that could act as a database.

With SP3 plus the ADO stuff, we must be awfully close (if not already there) to being able to write an out-process VFP server on Win9x that could service clients.

SNIP more

>You could eat up thousands of dollars of people time trying to re-create the wheel. The wheel being SQL Server, Oracle or another back-end database.
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A very expensive wheel (SQL Server or Oracle).

Cheers,

Jim N


>Just my 2 cents Canadian.