>>>>I'm looking for the ability to send a phone call over the net from a Visual FoxPro application. Is there such a Web site that will allow me to do that or should I use a modem for that?
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>>>You may want to do a search for VOIP (Voice over IP). I thought of www.dialpad.com (they used to have free long distance via the internet).
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>>Basically, what I need is the ability for a robot application to send a phone call in case something goes wrong with a server. So, a robot application might run as long as the ability to read a DBF on a specific server is working. If not, a phone call would be initiated to a specific local number and send some garbage. At least, I would know by answering the call that this is coming from my application or just by looking at the displayed number.
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>>I think I might be better to just plug a line over there and send the data from a modem.
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>Can you utilize the capabilities of the alert system in SQL Server? Might save you some time writing the application.

We already have the application. The situation is to decide on what medium to use to broadcast the information.