>>I once saw an entire accounting department halted because Lotus 123's overlays were on the server. The server froze, and the part of Lotus running in the PC's RAM couldn't get to the stuff in the overlays on the server. The result was the files couldn't be saved even locally.
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>VFP application acces ALL its data from server. If server frozes, the application frozes always, even if dlls are in local workstation.
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>>I don't know exactly what VFP would do if its overlays were on a server that froze. Do you want to risk that <g>? What are the performance implications when 25 workstations access the server for VFP stuff vs having the same stuff on the PCs?
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>i havent seen ANY performance degradation: typically a 30 MB of data is
>accessed over net. The size on dll files is about 0.01% of the whole data
>read from server. How it can affect to the perfomance ?

The ratio of the data to the dlls is irrelevant. The point is, is it faster to access the DLLS on the local PC or from the server. It should be faster from the local PC. Especially when the server gets busier.