Grigore,

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>>I don't think that MSDE would do your clients much good. You're limited to five (5) connections.. I'd think of it more as a 'pre-migration to SQL tool' type of product. It essentially gives you full SQL functionality with respect to being able to develop against the 'real thing' without having to purchase a full-blown copy just for the purposes of development. Your client might need a 2-processor solution and that gets expensive if used just for development prior to a huge sale.
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>>I'd think in your case you'd be better off sticking with VFP.
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>This is not entirely correct. MSDE isn't limited to 5 connections. This is MS's recommendation, but Carl Karsten posted at wikis some benchmarks. He tested MSDE with 30 simultan connections without performance penalty per connection.

Really? Interesting. I thought they had somehow locked that number in. Thanks for the info.

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>Also, there is no need for 2 processors. Just a horde of RAM. And the RAM is extremely cheaper. With 120 USD you can buy 512 MB RAM. And is more than enough.

Well, the point I was making here was that with SQL (2000) you pay per processor and that would be quite expenseive if you needed to have a test environment.

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>Hope this helps,