>You are joking I hope??
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>Microsoft positioned VFP as the development tool of choice for middleware objects. Now you're saying that we won't be able to use VFP with Yukon except in compatibility mode!! I bet that excludes using the varchar data type of any length?
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>Now I'm beginning to doubt that your job title is accurate.
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>It sounds to me like we're either going to have to use VFP with VFP data, or .Net with Yukon data, and I know which way the world will go.

Microsoft has not positioned VFP as you say, check out content on http://msdn.com for clarifications on your assumptions there. I suggest you figure out what features you need that might be missing before you jump to such conclusions. I already said that Europa is going to add addtional SQL Server compatabiity features. Europa is going to add the following data type support, which will benefit VFP apps using Yukon as well as SQL Server 2000: Varbinary, Varchar, Blob