>>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.
Why stop at 100,000. This Chunnel (England-France Tunnel) is managed by VFP running 24 by 7 with 10,000,000 rows. Great article in Foxpro Advisor some months back. Try that with VB or Access or Oracle or DB2 or .....
:))))
Gary