>hi jordan
>thanks for your reply and information.
>are the speed comparisons detailed on a website that i can access?
>many thanks...

No I show it to one guy form Frankfurt one and half years ago.
You can easy make a show
One form with search by two criteria done in VB.Net and VFP
database with 1.5 M records.
This was done from my .Net and VFP team leaders in the rest of conversation.
Result shocked the german manager.
You can say to your management that conversion from clipper to VB will be two times expensive than porting Clipper code in VFP.
If they outsource to our company their conversion costs will be 4 times less.
They can talk with President of www.dfpug.de about our services. He is experienced