With a VFP/Interbase combination (or blue+red shorts) you would get the benefits of both RUSHMORE and Database. VFP provides the GUI and VFP RUSHMORE cursors would cache the selects from Interbase!

Is Interbase a Borland (ENPRISE?) product? I remember them shipping Interbase with dBase VII.

>Hi Dorin;
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>>I don't have links, but I remember that I was searching for this kind of things. We don't use Interbase, but Firebird, its open source fork. It is very solid and performance is very good.
>>Interbase is used in US Army M1 tanks - that's mission critical - because its reliability and very fast restart/recovery.
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>>Better have red+blue shorts and use Interbase/Firebird + Foxpro. I've done this and I'm happy with it.
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>I am not user. But, I always listened good things of the interbase..
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>The best solution is when your application is not arrested to an only one back-end solution..
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>But, in my case I will talk of an integrated solution for Front/back-end.. IMO, VFP is highly applicable to the reality of the Brazilian. because it doesn't have the high costs (of purchase and maintenance) of a database manager..
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>Claudio