>Don't waste your breath. John wasn't around when you had to teach power users the "dot prompt".

uhhhhh.... excuse me? I had to teach users & managers & < gulp > even customers once, what the "dot prompt" was. And John's older than me. So pick another angle.

Just for the record, since I piped up here, yeah sure I experienced several shops where dBase and occaisionally foxpro for DOS was implemented as an end users tool. BUT - this was before Microsoft bought the product, and before Excel was what it is today. In fact I remember preparing written justification to use foxpro for DOS as an end user tool because LOTUS couldnt do variable driven comparisons. The justification was excepted by management, end users used the foxpro with USE/BROW/APPEND instructions for approx. 9 months until I got my first fox app written. So it was a temporary fix where it was used as an end user tool, not a long term one. But we're talking dark ages here folks, the days when nobody even knew what a gigabyte was. I dont see how that's relevant to Access being stated as the logical upgrade to fox 2.x. Personally I think that stupid chart should state VFP as the logical upgrade, but then again if you need a chart and can't analyze your own requirements... maybe you should use Access.

And while I'm on the soap box, all these discussion today seem like more of a testosterone match regarding who can out argue who and to hell with what technical points are being argued. Take a step away from it boys, and the whole VFP chip-on-the-old-shoulder is sooooo apparent up here today it's almost clausterphobic. Ahhhhh but wait, I think John already stated today that it's that usual attitude that causes such a limited perception of certain things in this community... < smirk > nebbermind :)