Hi George.

>What are the advantages to using VFP as the middle (business) tier as compared to VB or something else for 1)Internet apps or 2)regular apps?

In addition to what John mentioned (the two biggies, IMO), here are a couple of others:

- Rich language: VFP has way more commands and functions than VB, including but not limited to those specific for data

- Meta data: the key to writing generic code is meta data; it doesn't make sense to hit SQL Server every time you need to know the structure of a table. Storing meta data in VFP tables means you get fast access to it and the rich data commands and functions VFP supports.

BTW, on the speed issue John mentioned, I once heard a story that a development team rewrote a VB middle-tier object that did lots of string manipulation in VFP and saw a 100-fold improvement in performance.

Doug

P.S. Riders ought to kick Esk butt this year!