>Allan
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>>>It was probably an easy sell for the consultant to convince the mucky-mucks to move to Access - but as you pointed out a very bad decision considering the consequences.<<
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>So, MS VFP was replaced by MS Access, which did not do well, so it was replaced by MS SQL server and a MS front end tool.
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>Who is the winner, here, then?
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>Regards
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>JR

Clearly not the 'Access consultant' that got canned over the deal :-)