>Is there anything on the drawing boards to enable VFP to support DBFs with more than 2 gig of data, or more than 255 fields? I have a client who's got a DBF file that's going to hit that 2 gig wall in about 9 months, and we're either going to have to split the table, archive or go to some sort client server solution.

Interesting that you ask this question, Craig just answered this earlier today. See Thread#256969

You seem to have the right angle for solutions. Never hurts to submit this request to MS.