>Hi,
>
>We are using InTouch from Wonderware as a man machine interface. The
>product is excellent but the license fees are too high for logistical
>programms in production.
>That's why we started thinking about : Visual FoxPro or Visual Basic or ?
>
>Puropose.
>---------
>User Friendly Screens allowing operators to do some inputs.
>Integrate TouchScreens
>Integrate Scanner device (COM port)
>Integrate Bar code label printer (COM port)
>Print Documents on a standard printer (locan and network)
>Generate reports on - line (text + charts, pareto analyses, ...)
>PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT : needs to be fast, and when i say fast ... i mean
>fast !
>Reliable !
>
>Optional
>--------
>Communicate with InTouch over DDE.
>
>
>Visual FoxPro seems to be a nice tool. Using the integrated database
>possibilites. However in production we might be logging like 350.000
>records a year (we plan to clean it up each year). Is this tool still
>quick enough ?
>
>I have read that one can integrate SQL Server (which has no probs with lots
>of records), but dont you loose a lot of the integrated ease of programming
>in Visual FoxPro then (since you dont use the FoxPro database possibilities
>any more) ? Is it then wiser to use plain VB ?
>
>
>Thx,
>Gunther Recticel

Visual FoxPro will have no problem handling 350,000 records.