I was visiting an investment bank / brokerage today. They were interested in the fact that VFP could communicate with a financial database (The Bloomberg).

The Bloomberg is [perhaps] one of the most successful (and profitable) data services on the planet. Very expensive information.

I searched their site [using their propietary consoles] for VFP support. There were several pages of SDK's and sample code.

It was nice to se an uptown company promote VFP interfaces. Very nice.