>I'm proposing to develop an application in Visual Fox 5.0 and my client says they're adopting the entire Microsoft Office suite and why can't I do the app in Access???
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>I NEED AMMO!!!
>Please contribute any good technical reasons why VFox would be preferred over Access...
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>Thanx a bunch!
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>P.S. One concern (the usual) was, "Microsoft probably won't be going forward with VFox anyway..."
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>HELP!


Joe:

How many records is your client anticipating?. Access hits the wall at about 30,000 records. So if they plan to have anymore then that they will find the speed (or should I say the slow?) unberable. Access is designed for very small low impact databases, not for larger robust systems.

Ed