Rod,
I appreciate your reply. It does support some of my inclinations toward MSS. However, for my current purposes, I was really looking for a comparison between ASA and MSS. I think your experience with SYBASE has been with ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise - which is full blown and relatively expensive, when compared to either MSS or ASA (Adaptive Server Anywhere aka SQLAnywhere).

In any case, the issue has become temporarily moot, as we've discovered a way to deal with our problem using a purely VFP solution.

I'm continuing my research on both MSS and ASA in the meantime, albeit at a leisurely pace.

So I appreciate your offer of support and a demo, and will keep consider it in the future.

Thanks again,
Edmund
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>Your develelopers that use ASA should have NO problem using SQL Server. We have sucessfully trained 2.6 developers to use VFP and SQL Server. People with any server background should have no problem.
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>Also, SQL Server has a number of advantages. Native NT implementation. It takes advantage of NT clustering and other native NT functionality. It can be used on the desktop with MSDE or the desktop version of SQL Server. It is a snap to install and administrate. The SQL Servers we have require little on-site DBA intervention. Just setting the machine to backup at a regular interval and sometimes adding disk drives or memory. Other than that this baby runs....
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>If you have any questions feel free to e-mail. Of if you like I'm in LA quite often and could pay you a visit and demo SQL Server for you. Give me a call if you are interested 253-906-2342
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>Rod Paddock
>Red Matrix Technologies, Inc.
>Dash Point Software, Inc.