>Can someone point me to any articles on this topic or have personal experience with it and be able to get me started?

Well, in your message itself, if you have Auto-Linking on, the word n-tier actually links itself to an artcle here by Jim Booth in the KB on building n-Tier in VFP. Also, look in the MSDN under Technical Papers, Visual TOols Visual FoxPRo, or something like that for 2 articles by Robert Green on C/S (and more importantly the second one) on n-tier stuff.