Scot and Lucien,

I 'd like to point out also that we should be 'encouraging' our clientèle to go Windows (95 if necessary) in order not to let their technological gap widen too much. I'm in this business long enough to have seen it happen more often than not: Some day a client awakens and when that happens, the first he fires is his computer consultant or employee. What happens after that is aggravation for everyboddy.

About Data/Entry retrieval applications, I used to think too that DOS does the job. Let me interject this: this might seem true when looking on the paper functional requirements, but they do not always tell it all: In VFP, users can open ad lib multiple instances of the same program or others. If my assumption is correct that we program for small organisations, where as rule, one person wears more than one hat, then the possibility to interrupt his/her work and come back to it later, all within the same application, is definitely a big advantage, that you will rarely find explicitely in functional specs.

Now do not get me wrong. Hardware wise it is more expensive, but more important, development cost, (and I would not be surprised even in the long run), are higher in Windows.

My BEF,

Marc