>My company is going to be writing a front-end using VFP, shortly, to access an Oracle backend. I'd quite like to use ADO instead of remote views. Any opinions on using this methodology would be gratefully received!

Definately ADO. Under MS SQL Server, you get better performance by calling stored procedures for most of your queries, inserts, updates, and deletes. I have to assume that is also true for Oracle. Remote views cannot call stored procedures.