>>Show me any product even with a "native compiler" that can process data as fast as VFP.
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>Please take a look at Delphi 3 Client/Server. Also take a look a your local newspaper for decent programming jobs. You won't find too many VFP offers. However there will be plenty of VC++ , Power Builder, and Delphi offers. Also go to your local book store and library, and compare the the number of books on the shelves and those in circulation among the three languages I have listed above.
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>I have no complaints with the Rushmore database engine. However, when it comes to the code that we put into forms and Stored Procedures, the speed in that case sucks.
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So make an ActiveX server in VFP and build the interface in Delphi or VC++ or even VB. You quote newspaper job posting well I am as busy as a one armed paperhanger and I never look at the newspaper. Look at the classifieds here in the UT and see how many VFP positions are open right now. Check out the classifieds in the VFOX forum library on Compuserve and you'll find a bunch more. Check with any VFP development house and they are almost always looking for talent.

I don't argue that VFP is NOT a be all and end all development language, it was never meant to be. VFP is a database management application development language and I still say there is no other language that can rival it for database management.