>Kevin
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>Ironically the fact Oracle will be more expensive and have a bigger project footprint probably adds to its attraction at management level. It seems more "serious".

This is what we think down here, no logic to the decision at all.

>The VFP setup always seemed (when I was there) underresourced.

Yes, but we now have 3 trained developers and a trainee, all in fox.

>Also as others have mentioned the flexibility offered by the developers has caused the timescale to stretch.
>The rigidity which may come with Oracle will help timescales but doubt if your users are going to be happy.

The users/customer would never agree to the cost of ORacle, that's why I don't think it will happen, the most that will happen (which is what we've been asking for the last 3 years) is the DB to be put into a SQL-Server back-end so that we can do away with a copy in each 7 offices.

Kev