>..., but there is still the overhead of firing up the Fox COM object on each hit, adding a bit to the overhead. As Rick said, that's where the speed differences come into play.

And this may be changing, I would bet that MS is working hard on making ASP/COM development premiere beans. I can't tell you with any proof though, just FWIW.

>Running WC projects under ASP-compatibility mode is a step backwards, unless performance and responsiveness is not an issue.

I never used it, I don't have 3.0. I just read and assumed that he changed alot of the syntax to be directly the same, and make it so switching between the two would only require a middle tier type procedure. That would be pretty handy.