>You're both right! The Xbase heritage provides the data handling and (IMHO) flexibilty that VFP offers. However, like many things that are good, the term "Xbase" creates a kneejerk reaction (based on ignorance) from many of our fellow IT colleagues...
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>Bill

That Knee Jerk reaction is "It's not a real database" Preceived from an IT Director who wants high levels of security.

When M$ gets the idea that the DBC can be the entire db, say like Access, Sybase, SQL Server, ...... then the Knee Jerks will subside.

__Stephen