>>When I reed your answers(to all community), they are the same as Venelina gave me in our disputes.
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>Forgive my ignorance, but who is Venelina?

My wife. UT member ID#036910. I suppose that with same cerifications as you and big fan of VFP/SQL solutions.
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>>I have clients with 50 PC networks, which IT managers nobody can persuade to spent $5000 for SQLServer.
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>Do all 50 PC's use your VFP application? If so, that's 50 machines where someone might open your DBFs with Excel and have a field day, or they might delete the DBF files, or they might burn those files to a CD, or they might... the security issues faced by the typical VFP application are well known.
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Yes diffrent modules of ERP are installed on users workstations.
DBFs are on the company server in protected folder.
Usually their administrator burn CD-RW in the end of the day. :-)