>Thanks all. Problem is I suppose that we have around 50 clients using our software quite happily as it is in VFP. It's not a product-to-be-written, but a pretty complicated application that is in its 6th year of development.
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>I think the suggestions are pretty sensible. We just have to find the time to do it.
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>Thanks again.
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>Rene.

If you do not already have an N-Tier design then you are talking probably a major rewrite. OTOH if you are already using local views instead of accessing your DBFs directly, then it might not be too difficult to change to a client-server (2-Tier) design where you basically switch DBCs to use one with remote views with the same view names, and you are C/S and can talk to other back-ends.

Do an analysis of your current data access scheme to see how much work will be required. Consider that not all tables need/will be upsized to SQL/Server o similar as you may want to keep them locally in DBFs.

HTH