>1) I have a 10 million record table I have to maintain for customer telephone no. lookup (It finds all occurences of a phone no. in less than 1 second)
>2) I also have to do a report that takes in up to a 200,000 record file and converts it to a table, computes the amount of attempts per phone no as well as how many are in each time zone. This one takes about one minute to complete.
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>In this case, VFP is the best choice.

I agree. Your project does sound like an excellent fit for VFP.

>Me: I need to find out how much VFP 5.0 costs?
>Rep: Our company standard is Access.

Sounds familiar. Do you ever read Bob Lewis' column in Infoworld where he has his "ManagementSpeak" / "Translation" vignettes?

It's nice to be able to pick up a complete development system for about $400 and build powerful, distributable, royalty-free apps, no?

> ...People really don't know what the product can do simply because of Microsoft's past marketing efforts. I'm just doing my part to educate them as I'm sure the rest of you are.

I have run into this problem a lot. Sometimes, even proof of performance won't sway the bureaucrats of business. Sounds like your company is reasonably open-minded.

I have found that Univ. Threads is THE PLACE to get questions answered about VFP. Good luck!