>I love all the bad press that VFP gets. All the scared programmers >running to weaker, less flexible DBMS's. More work for me! I love it. >;-) > >Seriously though, I think VFP kicks tail for data delivery, and >improvements are made regularly. VFP marketed itself last year without any >help from the MS machine and now MS has seen the light and has finally >begun to put marketing dollars behind VFP, which is, if not its best, one >of its best development platforms. As developers, it then becomes our >responsibility to show all these nay-sayers what VFP can really do. I'm up >for challenge...and excited about it. > I'm excited about it too! I'd like to remember where I saw that challenge that Les Pinter put out in public to pit himself with VFP5 against any other so- called database development tool. He made it sweet by making a stipulation that the database would have at least 100,000 records in it. That'll choke every other desktop database tool compared with what VFP can do with it.