I hope the negative comments (and our sniping :) haven't put you off too much ... I believe VFP is an excellent development environment for most data-handling applications, even if you are using it as a front-end in conjunction with a higher-end data store. Let us know if we can help with anything else.
zahid

>I'd like to thank you all for the responses (even the ones that drifted a bit). It's going to take a little while to digest, but hopefully there's a lot there I can present to my boss.