>Somebody I know would like to have a good idea of what is VFP.
>The thing is that he does'nt want to buy it.
>Is there a (legal) solution arount this ?

Show him some of these facts and figures (from a faq I posted here).

VFP can handle huge amounts of data. Here are some examples:

1) The eurotunnel project used 128 GB data, 24 hours/day (http://www.paltielinc.com/vfp1.html)

2)Universal Thread has over 400,000 transactions per day and is based on VFP (http://www.levelextreme.com)

3) Rick Strahl built the Surplus Direct site it had peaks of "500,000+ VFP server hits a day and 28,000 VFP server hits per hour"
(http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/largeweb/)

4) Searching on "System Capacity in VFP6 help
"Maximum # of records per table file 1 billion
Maximum size of a table file 2 gigabytes
Maximum # of characters per record 65,500
Maximum # of fields per record(1) 255
Maximum # of tables open at one time(2) 255
Maximum # of characters per table field 254
Maximum # of open index files per table(2) unlimited
Maximum # of open indexes in all work areas(2) unlimited
Maximum # of relations unlimited"

The typical business app would not reach these capacity levels.