Thanks for that Jim.
MS technology has always been powerful for front-ends and I find Fox to be very flexible.
Kev
>Oracle has Oracle Forms and Oracle Developer which can be used to develop front-ends.
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>However, Oracle Forms, used in an Intranet scenario requires 5meg per user just to run.
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>I had a client re-developing a major VFP application using Oracle Developer. They spent 12 million and 4 years, 3 of which they were 90% "there", but it finally had to be shelved. What they were able to "demo" to users was rejected as too sssllllooowww and god ugly.
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>Considering they had 4 times the development staff as the VFP application, which went through 8 major upgrades during that time, and supposedly some of the most experience Oracle talent they could find. I would say you have very little to worry about Oracle taking over the front-end duties any time soon.
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>Oh, and they will have to heavily upgrade all their hardware including workstations.
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>Jim Eddins
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