Your first choice is what MSFT wants. They make much money on a VB/SQL Server combo than anything else.

I agree with you on the DBF platform really needed to tighted up. Security and data corruption needed to be priority number one when VFP was first released. I would also point out that just because security doesn't come out of the box of VFP, it can be added with encryption with out a lot of trouble.

>My first choice would be SQL-Server. I have yet to write an app that was not being used by at least 10 people. This does not preclude the choice of Jet.
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>The simple issue is that the DBF platform is something that has not been innovated in a very long time. The world quite frankley has passed it by. If your needs are simple, I suppose it works. However, from a security standpoint, it does not pass muster. And quite frankley, the continual requirement for me is security. That is the prima facie case for using SQL or Jet.
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>>What would you use for the data engine? MSDE?
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>>>If I have a clean slate to work with, more than likely, I would use VB.
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>>>>Say you had to write a Database app from scratch. No other given factors (multi-user, desktop/distributed, shrink wrapped/custom, data size), just form scratch, when would it be a VFP app?