>Delphi is a great tool. However, the Borland Database Engine (BDE) and its default use of Paradox for local data manipulation is a serious drawback.

Have you ever seen benchmarks in regards to the BDE. It is actually a pretty fast engine.


>Delphi as C/S front end, from an OOP perspective, could rival VB.

There can be no comparision to VB as VB is not OOP. One thing that is nice about Delphi - and VDB 7 for that matter - is its two way tools. Write code - and have the visual designer automatically see the changes. Or, make changes visually and see the change in code.

>If I did not have the management directive to convert our legacy FoxPro 2.6 apps to VFP, I would select Delphi over a MS tool for a C/S project...

Delphi is another good choice and it is nice to see this opinion expressed here. Glad I am not alone<g>.