>Are there any unbiased thoughts as to why oracle seems to be bigger than foxpro and that the job mkt for oracle is greater than that of foxpro? I find oracle cumbersome to program in and the screens not too user friendly.

Tim,

Oracle and Foxpro/VFP are two completely different animals - their only similarity is that they're both databases but that's where the similarities end. Oracle is a server database (runs on AS400, UNIX and NT Server) whereas Foxpro is a file server database (runs on DOS/Windows/Win32). You can't really compare the two because you're comparing apples to oranges. Also, Foxpro is a database management system with application development capabilities whereas Oracle is a backend database with an SQL programming language but no front end tools (hence the PB/Oracle combo).

-JT