>>I'd be very interested in such an animal.
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>Yes... for the abuse I take up here for engaging in these topics, my biggest detractors would be the first to read. I don't mean to lump you in that category. It's just a point that needs to be made...

No problem. I've been lumped, both correctly and wrongly, in a number of categories before. Actually, this thread has been very interesting to me and I really appreciate your taking the lumps. I'd be interested in the article to learn new things, not to find fault and give you a few more lumps. I've always said that as developers we need to use the right tool for the job. To this point, I haven't seen a need to use VB in the middle-tier because I could accomplish everything I needed with VFP, but I DO intetend to look much more closely at VB mid-tier objects in the near future.