Mike,

Typically, I agree with many of your arguments. However, on this topic I think you are way off base.

As a matter of fact, I think if you read your below quote slowly, a couple times, you'll see it's one of the best arguments yet for making the ADO provider free.

You have only been involved with VFP for a couple years. Lets just say my background goes back a few years further. I've watched as each year VFP dips a little further off the radar. If offering the provider for free will give people access to a stripped down version of VFP, ala MSDE being a stripped down version of SQL, maybe people will come back into the Fox camp. And even if some people do some things for free, there should be lots who would want the full power and plunk down the several hundred dollars necessary.

PF

>Good point. I think that by releasing the provider for free, FoxPro (the database, not the tool) will probably come under the radar of more decision makers and researchers as a very econmic solution. Wether or not this will lead to materialzation of enough resources for developers trying this is hard for me to predict.