Jess

>>But overall, Delphi is a much better tool for DB and even general software development. <<

FWIW, I was invited by Borland towards the end of the Delphi development phase, to attend a conference in Australia looking at Delphi and in particular its data handling.

I thought Delphi was absolutely fabulous... proper compilation, great IDE, threads from day 1 that even I could understand, no manual garbage collection, tiny exe files...

But I waited for the VFP3 Beta and ended up choosing VFP. One of the main reasons was (gasp) the dreaded Remote View which I still think is fabulous and allows anybody to develop VFP data apps without immediate investment in detailed backend skills.

The other reason was that Borland was a bit shaky at that time and customers were a bit worried.

Can you tell me how Delphi has improved its data handling since then, or is there somewhere I can look it up without wading through reams of marketing?

Regards

JR