>The January 2003 Issue of PC Magazine includes an article on page 116 titled "Databases for ALL Reasons". Reviewed in the story were:
>Alpha Five v5
>askSam Professional 5
>FileMaker Pro 6
>Microsoft Access 2002
>MyDatabase 6.0
>Paradox 10
>QuickBase
>and the Editors Choice is... FileMaker Pro! Did you notice anything missing here?
>
>On page 124 there is a one-page sidebar on "Migrating from Access to a High-End DBMS". Some of the questions raised just beg for VFP as the answer!! I have not found the article on-line (yet).

Well, don't get too upset about it...

On page 124, which DBMS products *were* recommended? If they limited the answers to true database products, I do not feel so slighted [although I have no doubt that your comment about some of the questions begging for VFP is true]: there's only so much room in a sidebar and if an author was told to include true server-executing DBMS products, I can't blame him/her for sticking with that.

As for VFP not being included on the list on page 116, most of those products really market themselves as VERY easy to use database-style products for beginners. While a basic Browse window or simple form is easy for most of us on the UT, have you ever actually seen askSam? It's designed for my grandmother's recipe collection. That's not a slight! There's a market for these products -- but it's a very different market than VFP, and personally I would not want a language I program to be included on a list with askSam and Alpha Five.

There are exceptions, of course -- I am shocked that they included Paradox 10, which, unless it changed since the last time I saw WordPerfect Office 2002, does not have a super-easy-to-use askSam/Access interface. Sounds like Corel's PR folks have that mag's ears more than VFP's folks do.

Vin

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell