Gerry,

>In general, .NET etc., sounds like a solution searching for a problem.

Well, I dunno about that < g >, but I wasn't even talking about .NET ... Web Services is stuff you can do right now with VFP7, without having to wait for .NET to be ready-for-prime-time ...

~~Bonnie



>>We write shrink-wrapped software for Fire Departments ... this scenario would scale nicely for small volunteer fire departments all the way up to huge city departments (in fact, FDNY is one of our customers). We've not done anything with Web Services in this regard, but it sure would be nice to start moving in that direction.
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>In general, .NET etc., sounds like a solution searching for a problem.