Here's a possible scenerio:

I have a multi-tier app. VFP GUI, BizObj, and a SQL Server data layer. The
BizObj and Data Layer will be compiled into VFP COM objects.

So the GUI passes a query into the BizObj, which passes it to the data layer.
Since the data layer is SQL Server, it would need to have a way to pass the
data back across COM boundries through to the BizObj, so naturally ADO is used.

Then the BizObj passes the ADO RecordSet back to the GUI. The GUI uses a CursorAdapter
to convert the data to VFP tables, which are bound to form controls.

On the reverse, the data from VFP tables is converted back into ADO, then passed through
the BizObj for validation to the data layer and updated into SQL?

Sound about right?