>>our company teams took part in ms' enterprise day today and i had fortunately chosen Peter Hoadley's session on Enterprise Platforms Strategy. he recommended that people start programming with COM in mind or in the 3-tier approach (was it customer, business, storage...) to developing. whether it was office, vfp, vb, j++, c++, in the bottom they were all COMponents.
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>>i will be looking on this direction, in the meantime, does anyone know about windows DNA strategy and how to fit vfp into it? will 'tahoe' guide us in how to dev for distributed computing? next year or two from now, it will be the new windows systems.
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>>thanks.
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>There are two features of Tahoe that are important to the approaches you describe. One is support for Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS). This will aid in developing 3-tier apps. The other is active document. This will allow your FoxPro application to run in another application like Internet Explorer.

Also, the three-tier approach you mention is basically Front-End (GUI), Process, and Back-End (Data). When you develop in components you can mix and match and integrate different development platforms. i.e VB front-end, VC++ process and VFP back-end. The nice thing about VFP is that it is a great fit for any level of the tier.