>uh ... this thread is really moving away from the topic, I was actually kind of interested in hearing comparisons since I've never used Delphi, but have heard good things about it.

Overall, to me, it's a better product than VB or VFP, but the risk factor coz of the owning company's instability, really worries me. I have to think long term. Borland-Inprise have this history of ups and downs (What happened to dBase, and some products from them?) that's why the merge with COREL didn't materialize. Well, there is no such thing as indispensible company on this planet earth, but the effort and sacrifice you will be making should be seriously put into consideration before entering into something new.

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>>>Visual Basic/Visual Foxpro
>>>1) Put EXE on server
>>>2) Visit all 1000 computers and install VFP/VB runtime
>>>
>>>Total deployment time 1000x10min = 166 hours.
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>>Hi,
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>>Can't you just set up an install-shield "package" and have all users install it? I would guess that something like i-shield would be able to handle runtimes and other miscellaneous files your app might need.
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>>I stand to be corrected ;-)
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>>Alex