>Any VFP developer worth his salt, knows that data querys using the Rushmore Optimization in the FoxPro engine far exceeds the persormance of SQL, and SQL server.

I'm inclined to believe you. Has your group done any timing studies that you have written down?



>Where performance is critical, far too many "consultants" are recommending improvement in hardware and connectivity to enhance performance of an inherently slow product. Even Microsoft, with its Terradata project, installed super fast connections, fiber optics, clustered servers, etc in order to get some kind of performance out of SQL server, when that entire application could have been done in VFP, run on an NT server, and provide query results just as fast as all that expensive hardware (In my opinion)

Ummm...

2 Billion bytes is a long way from a Terradata.

Peter