Hello !

We have developed a VFP5 program called the Factory Commander that gathers data about a manufacturing process and produces reports indicating production results.

The calculation phase of this program takes about ten times longer than our competitors who use C and Smalltalk. We have about 15 related tables and use SCAN/SEEK and SQL Selects to process the data and I believe we are maximizing the Rushmore technology.

Any ideas on why our competitors are beating us using a 'database from scratch' in C ?