Dear JVP
"Oracle" is a development tool as well as a database, just as VFP is. Thus, "Taking work away from Oracle" does not have to mean moving your data from Oracle to local tables. I expect that the bank has a team of people doing Forms work that is now being done in VFP.
Hopefully this is clear for you now.
Any other questions you have about C/S feel free to ask, glad to assist. None of us knows everything, after all.
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
