>Kevin
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>How about this, then:
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>1) Agree enthusiastically with your boss. Oracle will be great.
>2) Get all the costs for Oracle and confirm it will "only" cost xxxxxxxxxxxx pounds. Oh, plus another xxxxxx for development tools. and external Oracle contractors only charge xxxxx.
>3) Show him how you VFP'ers will be able to access the magnificent Oracle system using VFP Views and SPT- a simple demo will do.
>4) Confirm that Yes, he can have all the advantages he is so right exist in Oracle, combined with his existing VFP resource already paid for and present in-house.
>5) If he expresses concern about cost, offer to develop using Views so that when the day comes and there is budget you can move cleanly to Oracle. In the interim you can scope/develop using local tables at far reduced cost and much greater efficiency. And if an even better Oracle comes along, he has done the organisation proud by not spending too early and introducing extra cost.
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>Regards
>
>JR


The only problem with No. 5 is that we originally wrote the application using Views and it started to run so slowly that we switched to accessing the tables directly.

Kev