>>>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

May be we should start VFP advertising campaign without M$ help... :)

Nick