>I'll give you the first three but express that the last one is more a preference than a real advantage. Also, realize that when the first two become an issue, you just purchase a SQL license, and those limitations go away. IMO, any organization that has 20 or more people in the database or is dealing with GBs of data probably can afford a SQL license to buy the security and robustness of SQL...
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>>As for the corruption. I've got about 100 independent systems up and running all over the country for about one or two years now, and have not yet discovered one instance of corruption of either the table no the indexes. VFP, when using buffering and transactions is far less fragile than FPW 2.x.

There is an outfit in Houston that has 400 'live' connections to an xBase system. They're doing pretty good with it. They've got the bucks but they stayed with the xBase.