>An organization asked my help to develop a multiuser system. At the moment the system will be small enough with few enough users that I envision a file server app yet it might scale eventually to client/server. Members in the organizations computer maintaince department, mostly hardware tech, want to use either Paradox or Access because one of their members is familiar with those packages.
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>Can anyone give a comparison, a short list of the advantages and disadvantages, between Paradox, Access and VFP.
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>TIA

The UT is full of discussion of the advantages and disadvantages (mostly disadvantages) of Access. Little has ever been said here about Paradox, however. I have never used it. A guy at the Corel booth at FOSE (a government computer convention in Washington) told me last year that Paradox was a more robust development environment than Access, an easier end-user tool than FoxPro and cheaper than either one. He gave me no reason to prefer it as a serious development environment. Like Access and VB, Corel Paradox is object-based, but not object-oriented like Visual FoxPro. Also like Access, Paradox is a part of an office suite (Corel WordPerfect Office), not part of a developer's suite like Visual Studio. You might want to find out whether your collegue actually knows the current windows-based, object-based version from Corel, and not something like Borland Paradox 4.0 for DOS. That's because Paradox seems to have declined a lot over the years. (Now I've done it. Legions of loyal Paradox programmers are layin' for me now.)