Hi Alex,

>Your black-box philosophy could be extended a bit to encompass other database back-ends.

I don't know if I really understood your idea, but some time ago I posted in the wiki (http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~WhyVFPIsTheToolOfYourChoice~VFP): "One of those could be to access Oracle, SQL Server, Informix etc using VFP's native DML syntax (why not?) thru the use of (maybe 3rd party supplied) add-on "driver DLLs" that could do the "durty job" between the program itself and the access routines of the DB - much like those "exogenous" stuff already do (even the DBC/DBF/... access could be a component DLL, just to make it generalized)."

If what you meant follows the line of what I said above, find it great, because programmers with less skills (like myself) could have a great push!

Of course I'm used to see people saying "you can make that with ADO, so why we need this?".

Regards,

Fernando