>These people are not MS employees and their deep-seated need to market SQL Server, especially at the expense of VFP, is questionable at best!
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>That is your real beef - isn't it?????
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>If SQL Server is better - do the motives matter? Why are they questionable?
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>What is more offensive? The fact that I provide concrete examples to support my opinion - or you - calling my motives into question without a shred of technical justification on your part...
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>For the record, I am not marketing SQL Server. Rather, I am suggesting the right tool for the job. And - when people decide that they are going to spread blatent falsehoods about SQL Server as compared to .DBF - technically, I and others will take them out to the woodshed.
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>The bottom line, you are just ticked off that MS does not promote VFP.

You REALLY do need to take a remedial reading course, John.
First and foremost my complaint was that some people state blatantly that MSDE **IS** SQL Server when in fact it is not. *IF* they said something like (as DaveN did) 'everything that you do in MSDE runs without change in SQL Server' then my ONLY "beef" would be that some of those same people denigrate VFP/DBFs to SELL the MSDE concept and there should be no need for such talk. I don't see MS doing it, yet these non Microsoft (wannabe employees or wannabe MVPs) kick sh*t out of VFP to make their point!
Secondly, where in the world did I say ANYTHING negative about MS in that repsonse?????

Finally, I'm not nearly so sad about MS' failure to market VFP as you are happy that they don't. Even if, for some perverted reason, it DID make you happy, I still don't understand your crying need to revel in the fact.

And, by the way, your "right tool for the right job" is way way off too. You seem to assume that things like scalability and non-monolithic and security and monstrous data stores are de rigeur in this business. The FACT is that tens of thousands of businesses, probably hundreds of thousands including all countries where MS products are sold/used, are small-medium sized where those little goodies DO NOT APPLY but where cost is a genuines central concern. VFP fits that bill, and so is the right tool for the job, far better than SQL Server does.

Jim