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>>My questions:
>>-Does VFP truly shine in such an environment or would it be preferable to use VB. I need to collect strong arguments to convince others that VFP is the right tool. My best argument at this time is the lack of true object oriented concepts in VB (ie inheritance) I'm I right on this?
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>VFP really is where you want to be in the middle. Earlier this year, Software Development magazine said that of all the tools in Visual Studio, only VFP was well suited for middle-tier COM objects.
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>>-I have no experience with MTS. How is it?
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>MTS is a great platform. In Windows 2000, MTS and COM and being merged and enhanced to become COM+. A wise decision to go this way.
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>>-Another ongoing debate is to scrap all of the above and use Enterprise Java Beans/CORBA standards. I have no knowledge at all with this technology. Can anyone comment?
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>Everything I've read says that COM beats the crap out of both JavaBeans and CORBA. There are some independent test results on Microsoft's web site that show MS has better scalability.
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>>Let me know if you would like more details, and thank you in advance for your time in helping me sort things out.
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>I do have a question. Why not go to a browser-based front-end?

Going to a browser-based front end is a possibility...but how?

First, I should tell you that we are looking at a very complex user interface (ie, page frames with many pages, grids, trees, etc...) At this time, I have no experience with interfacing databases with the Web but I am willing to learn if I find that's the way to go. In such a case, would I be using JAVA as the programming language for the front end? If so would this interface well with VFP COM objects in MTS? Would I need IIS.

Any help would be much appreciated...and thanks for taking the time to reply to my initial inquiry.