>Hi John,
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>You said:
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>>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.
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>Removing the double negative, just for clarity sake:
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>It can be demonstrated that the combination of ADO .NET + SQL Server can be as flexible and as fast as Fox + native DBF's.
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>I think that I can demonstrate that Fox programs accessing Fox data can be more flexible and just as fast.
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>I bet I can demonstrate this.
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>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?

Mike,

With all due respect to both of you, I don't think that the debate should be .NET + SQL Server versus VFP, but rather .NET + SQL Server versus .NET + VFP + SQL Server.

The questions being:

1. Which is more flexible?

2. Which is more scalable?

3. Which is more maintainable?

JMO,