>First of all, it's been good to see you back on-line. As a side note, and knowing that you've dealt with PowerBuilder people in the past, I want to mention, that our department is dropping PB and going to .NET and VFP.< bg >

Likewise to see you, George, and good for your dept! They're still using PB here as the primary serious dev tool, but the earlier PB hype & luster is gone, after too many buggy, bad-performance large apps (not to blame that entirely on PB, of course, but still...). They're starting to look at alternatives to PB, anyway...

The bigger change right now is the move away from Sybase here. That was our standard SQL DB for years. Now they're looking at MS SQL Server for some things, and Oracle for others. You probably know Sybase is having some financial problems, and there is growing concern about the future viability of it (of course, that concerns PB too - same company - but for now the IT heads are focusing on DBs).

>Frankly, I'd put the onus on Microsoft to tell us. The docs that I've seen (and I'm not a beta tester and just have access to the public beta), only say that you can't install on NT Terminal Server. Similarly, when I search the docs on "Windows NT", I get 23 hits, and the ones I've looked at all have to do with the procedures necessary to get an application installed on an NT workstation. Further, the readme (and help) file conspicuously omits NT as an installable, for applications, platform.
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>I'd like something clear cut from Microsoft. We know the development platform. So what exactly are the run-time platforms? It seems pretty much of a grey area right now.
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>FWIW, I've no problem with the development platforms. IMV, any serious developer should be running Win2K SP2 or later.

I agree with all you say, George. This is an MS job to inform us, not something we should need to figure out by trial & error. However, for a quick & rough answer, testing might be the fastest way...or, maybe someone from the MS/VFP team can jump in and straighten this issue out? I don't think this qualifies as one of those "NDA" topics :-)