If you're not married to a Microsoft backend, look into MySQL running on Linux. There is an ODBC driver for MySQL. I believe there was an article in FoxPro Advisor recently about using MySQL with VFP.

>I am doing basic research on what way I want to take my management system in the next few years. I am trying to avoid MS SQL Server because of the cost. I am trying to come up with a way to run a VFP exe on a server that will process requests for data from 5-15 PCs. Is there a way each PC can send a request to the server? I know I can have the server app look at a DBF every second or so and run a process based on whatever I put in the DBF, then write out a result file that the PC can pick up. What I really want is to find some way of directly sending a signal from one VFP app to another on a different PC. Or is there already a way to write a VFP server program?
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>Thanks in advance,
>John.