Jim, Mike-

>>Well, VFP can do Web Services just like Delphi. Web Services are nothing new, its basically just an HTTP call that runs a program somewhere out on the cloud (the latest and greatest word for "Internet") and returns a value that the caller can use programmtically.
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>SNIP
>I couldn't resist replying, Mike, if only to give you an idea of "where it is that I'm coming from" these days...
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>You said: "somewhere out on the cloud (the latest and greatest word for "Internet")".

Uh, dunno why you all are picking on "cloud" which is not a MS concept but one from peer-to-peer networking to talk about an affiliation of peers.