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

What, me?! Upset!?!? No Way!!!

>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.

M'soft SQL Server, Oracle 9i Database, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise. There's a huge canyon between these three and the 7 very simple ones reviewed in the article, and any of the 7 would have choked long before the cost of the 3 'real' DMBS upsizing could be justified. I'll be looking for the on-line discussion at pcmag.com to get in touch with the author and ask what he knows about VFP.

But we're used to this, right?