> >First, I don't know where the "Mark" came from in the quoted response, but I guess that's another issue. > Probably me looking at the wrong message <s>... >Thanks once again. And I did visit your site and the RESPONSE WAS MOST IMPRESSIVE - in fact I would say it was noticeably the fastest of any of the (limited) sites I have visited! Which site did you look at? My site, or the Surplus site? If you haven't looked at www.surplusdirect.com that's a good example of a fast response site running VFP getting around 150,000 daily hits. > >I am slowly learning to take what MS implies "with a grain of salt". Overall, though, I still have problems with such a modus operandii. I don't think that's MS implying - that's me or those who've played with most of the technology coming out of MS today. MS is good at putting stuff out for mindshare, not so good at getting it right once it first goes out. It'll get there, but it'll take time and people pushing. The overall moral should be though: You can build very high volume Web apps with Visual FoxPro. The tools are available and if you design your application smartly it will be able to handle all but the heaviest volume - The Surplus site is rated as one of the top 10 commercial sites on the Internet with according traffic with close to 2 million total page hits on peak days... +++ Rick ---