John,

Thank you for your explanation. I kind of like what I read, ... and for the your $$$ of course. I knew we were doing some things right :)

Marc


>>>I have seen many situations where VFP would have been
> the be-all do-all tool but a consultant or staff member suggested a VB->MS SQL client/server solution that ended
> up 3x the expense and 10x the speed."
>
>Sadly, this is not an exaggeration. As to expense: I took over an account where the user wanted a simple 12 user registration system where the original development proposal -- from a VB-centric developer -- was priced at $100,000 development and a few $1,000 more in buying SQL Server and some other toys. Now this was an app with maybe 20-25 forms, about 10 reports and some simple import-export functions....We did it for $25,000 and pocketed a hefty profit. Moreover, the client is estatic. As to speed: One of the requirements of this system was to scan registrants and set a flag if certain conditions were true. There were over 175,000 records. VFP takes less than a minute to do it; VB-MS SQL combos, regardless of data driver, took several minutes.