>>Tom,
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>>You are saying (rumoring?) then that the database engine of VFP is going to be replaced by an SQL Server lite (like?) engine? And that the rest of VFP (the less robust part if you ask me) may survive as a front end in parallel with Basic, C etc.? Are you then not really confirming the title of this thread _and_ the theory of MS as broadcast _and_ its less than official agenda?
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>>Marc
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>>>>> It is rumored VFP will take on the role as the front end for the (also > rumored) SQL Server Lite
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>>>>That sounds like a meal ticket to me!
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>>>Sounds like me may end up being "Jack of all trades and Master of None". I don't have enough time as it is and now I am supposed to know more? The days of the independent one man operations are quickly fading....
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>>>Tom
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>Marc,
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>Two things:
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>a) Tom can correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the VFP data engine will be 'incorporated' into SQL Server (lite) not replaced by. Everyone, even Gates, acknowleges that the Fox Engine kicks tail over anything else.
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>b) Although there are issues with I/O speed and an interpreted language as opposed to a compiled language, I still believe that the VFP front end is quite robust. It utilizes inheritance and polymorphism better than any other MS product. If I had the OOP and function libraries of VFP, the raw speed of C and the general flexability (particularly with data exchange/communications) of VB, I really couldn't find room to complain.
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>JMHO


I have no "internal" details of any "rumored" SQL/S Lite. My understanding is it will be a SQL/S engine that will run on Win95. But again it is a rumor.

Tom