>>I guess my main point is that having the SQL DB on one machine and the VFP middleware on another would not pose a problem for throughput.
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>What on earth are you contemplating, where you actually might NEED that kind of bandwidth in a C/S (effectively) environment? A lot of server clusters (PC, mini, or mainframe) don't have that level of interconnect bandwidth.


As I said there is no proven need at this point. But I don't think it will be long (2-3 years) before gigabit connections become commonplace.

Peter