I guess you are talking about Delphi 2.0 at that time. Ms. Tracy told it best what's Delphi can offer now. Aside from the recently released Kylix for Linux.

True, it's not the superiority of the product that made us as a company decided to choose VFP -although v.3 at that time was buggy- it's Borland's questionable stability.

>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