Karl, I believe that your question needs to be qualified with the following information: Will you be doing a lot of client-side database manipulation and/or analyses? If the answer is no (i.e., if your application is mainly transaction oriented), then a product like VB provides a bit more flexibility than VFP for front-end development. However, VB's database engine (Jet) sucks compared to VFP. VB's RDO capabilities provide more control over the C/S interface compared to VFP's capabilities (e.g.,, event trapping). However the client-side cursors (batch or otherwise) using RDO are slow compared to VFP.

As for Oracle Lite, I really can't comment. But I can just about guarantee that if you need powerful client-side data manipulation capabilities, particularly with large client-side tables, VFP will outperform anything else out there.

>I was over at the Oracle site reading about their new java client database Oracle Lite.
>After reading a brief white paper on the new product it looks like it has many
>capabilities to be a powerful front end client to use for connecting to back-end
>Oracle Server. But I was also curious to see if it would be in the same league
>and compete with Visual Foxpro. Does anyone have any insight??