>>I use ODBC drivers for connecting to DB2 and Oracle databases.
>>Now I notice that the drivers are getting old and are not updated.
>>Therefore I would appreciate if someone could answer the following questions:
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>>1. Will MS stop supporting the ODBC standard and if so, when ?
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>Eventually, but I would not want to guess when. The VFP ODBC driver is no longer being updated.
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>>2. Do you think that in the next version of VFP, Remote Views will be able use OLE db to connect to remote databases.
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>No. You should now be using the CursorAdapter.

Thank you for your response. BTW there are some update issues with the CursorAdapter, see thread #797306.