>I have been asked to provide some documents on why VFP is a good choice as opposed to other langauges. No other specific languages have been named, but management would like some technical info. I have some great info from the Microsoft web-site (fact sheet etc)Just wondering if anyone knows of some other resources for this (comparison charts or something like that maybe)

Here are some strengths of VFP
- subsecond queries in record sets with millions of records
- good OOP implementation which speeds development, promotes reuse, reduces bugs
- can develop 1-tier to n-tier apps that are scalable to a backend server and to the web
- the excellent on-line peer support through forums like the UT and fox.wikis.com
- built in database engine
- highly productive UI creation because of inheritance
- inexpensively deploy large and fast file server based applications
- no client licence fees like SQL Server or Oracle
- extremely fast string handling which is good for HTML and XML manipulation and generation
- can produce and consume web services
- built-in XML support
- one of the best implementations of intellisense which extends to COM and web services and helps to improve developer productivity