>Would you mind telling us what it was that maked a difference? What the problems were before you made the change? I understand that "the dark side " means leaving dbf and going DBMS, not quite sure why "they" would call it that way.

A couple of things from programming to technical
support of 1000 installation and 8000 users...

1. Data corruption in memo fields.
2. Backups that would not run because a user had a dbf file open
3. "The network is slow..." running 70+ users on dbf.
4. IT guys that bless SQL no matter if the front is VB or VFP or ...
5. Overall VFP performance on larger networks
6. MSDE support ( It's free !)
7. In general, more up time and less tech support calls.