>Anyways, those are my thoughts, and they reflect the computer user in general these days. Everything should work perfectly, quickly, and be free. I disagree... but what do you think?

"Perfectly" is a bit far fetched, but I'd be happy if software would work as it's supposed. Particularly the OS, which is so bloated with "cute" features that I'm sure that whatever stability you refer to in another message in this thread was achieved by sheer accident.

As far as OUR software Vs. users is concerned, I have a client who complained to me that one of my forms is taking to long to load. 10 - 15 seconds was unacceptable for him.

Until I mentioned to him that just by displaying that form I'm saving his employees about 3 minutes of error-prone work.

He admitted that I was right but he still doesn't like the fact that the form is not as snappy as one in a DOS system that's based on a single table (this one opens about 20).

I don't want my software to demand new hardware. If everything could run on a pentium 200 with 64MB of ram and windows95, I would be the happiest person in the world, but unfortunately at some point you have to make a realistic (not microsoft-style) recommendation for minimum hardware.

Today's low-end hardware with 2-year old software is a perfect combination.

Actually, considering that vfp hasn't changed dramatically in several years, I'd say that that is quite an advantage when the time comes to push our creations. We have the best of both worlds: sw that's not too demanding in terms of hardware, and sw that can play in today's technological arena seamlessly.

There... those are my thoughts.

Alex