>In the 15aug97 issue of Computer Contractor (VNU Business Publication), a magazine targeted at contractors in IT industry in the UK, I came across an article "The Need For Speed", which attempted to address the speed issues in client/server enviromnents.
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>Unfortunately the author attempted to make comparisons qualitatively using VFP (and xbase) mainly to illustrate a file-base system and a client/server based system.
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>Terms like "The toy databass like Visual Foxpro and the Xbases are file-server based. Ture industrial-strength systems, on the other hand ..."
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>In making its point about file-based databases, it mentioned "to find one match out of 100k orders, all 100k of them have to passed over the network from the server to the client (workstation)".
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>The above is just an example of how non-Foxpropeople misunderstand Foxpro in particular, and the suitability rule (as in horses for courses) in general.
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Those guys definitely didn't read another article in March issue of FoxPro Advisor, "The Ultimate Power & Speed of VFP", where Val Matison is talking how the VFP handles one of the largest data set in the world - 128 GB for Euro Tunnel.

Nick