>>Can anybody refer me to database product reviews including VFP and other popular products e.g. Access? In particular, we have a movement here towards Access that I cannot seem to overcome. Some hard comparisons from reliable sources would help.
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>This isn't a hard comparison, but the first thing I tell people is to look at how the two are packaged. Access is an end-user product that comes with Office...another end-user product. It isn't designed for serious development. Yes, you can create programs with it, but you can also create programs with Excel or Word. They all support VBA. VFP is a developer tool. It comes with Visual Studio, another developer tool. VFP is fully object-oriented and has the fastest database engine.

Office 2000 has Developer edition already. MS claims that it was created specifically for developers, with tools that helps easily build, deploy and manage customized solutions.