Rick,

I certainly accept what you have to say regarding the potential for high-performance internet services.

But when it comes to MS implying versus you (and other capable folks) "misleading" people like me, I am (in my case) CERTAIN that it is MS which gave me the impressions I had.
They simply made things sound "simple as pie" - as if it was all there in VFP and just waiting to be exploited. As you yourself have testified, it takes much more than just VFP and a bit of Registry updating to deliver a responsive (and efficient) multi-client service.
I am quite happy to give this a shot with VFP, but am in no position to incorporate C and techniques buried in OLE SDKs and Win SDKs in order to do so.

I will visit the Surplus site and look forward to the experience.
And it sounds like you will keep "pushing the envelope", which should ultimately translate into a general reality for this kind of thing for the "average" VFP person.

Cheers,
Jim N

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>>First, I don't know where the "Mark" came from in the quoted response, but I guess that's another issue.
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>Probably me looking at the wrong message ...
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>>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!
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>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.
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>>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.
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>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.
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>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...
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>+++ Rick ---