>>My "conclusion" was that I will deliver benefits "faster" ... You're "fogging"; the fact that my "solution" "may" not be "secure" or "n-tier" is immaterial. Nice try, tho :).
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>And it won't SCALE either! Boy, what kind of 'applications' do you foist on your users???? Clearly your users are a sorry lot who don't understand what they REALLY need.

Actually, they scale very well, and are very well received.

I said "may" ... In fact they are partitioned; thin UI (all subclassed from a single master class that does all the DML), single and multipick objects, and only application and report objects. I thought we were simply contrasting DBF'S and native DDL/DML vs SQL Server.

What's up ? ... floggind SQL Server now, or do you have a **** in your pocket ?