>Finally, what the benefits of all this? Ok, I spent a lot of money and time to learn all this. However, what it gives in advantage to VFP?
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- New skills that can be used in other areas, not just VFP.
- More robust applications: Easier to maintain, modify, and better scalability. They are also more extensible. If you move the business logic into a COM DLL running under MTS (or component services in Win2K), you don't need to rewrite it when the client wants to access the stuff from the web.
- You're not tied to one technology or product. The days of the single product or technology solution, if not over, are close to being there.

Take a look at the state of software development. What I've outlined is the way things are moving. I think it was Jim Booth who said that if you don't want to learn new things or don't want change, then dig holes for a living.