Hi John,

You said:

>The fact is - it cannot be demonstrated that the combination of ADO .NET + SQL Server cannot be more flexible and faster than Fox + native DBF's.

Removing the double negative, just for clarity sake:

It can be demonstrated that the combination of ADO .NET + SQL Server can be as flexible and as fast as Fox + native DBF's.

I think that I can demonstrate that Fox programs accessing Fox data can be more flexible and just as fast.

I bet I can demonstrate this.

How do we proceed? Using the UT Member's critieria as a suggested guidelines for flexibility is obviouslly going to be biased. Do you have suggestions that can even out this bias?