> Yes, I remember seeing that. But the fact is that we still don't have it. > And even if we had it, some applications in VFP which have a top heavy user > interface, includeing multi-lingual, multi-colored grids that are fed > real-time data from up to ten large databases, can never compete with the > speed of a User Interface offered via a compiled application. I don't suppose too many apps are fed from ten databases and even apps that feed from 10 tables (on the same form at the same time) aren't common IAC the differance in speed between VFP and Delphi is marginal (and I am not that suref Delphi would out perform VFP) for what you describe as most of the job is done by the pre-compiled componenets (like the grid, ODBC, the local DB engine) and most likely the bottleneck is the network the advantage of Delphi vs. Dev Studio is that you have a single language to learn the advantage of Dev Studio is that you have specialized tools for specific jobs IMHO the 2nd way is better btw, compilation isn't that important for most things - see the growing popularity of JAVA Arnon