Terry,

the success of TurboTax is a success of the company which wrote it and not a VFP sucecss story. There may be 10...20...100 TurboTax-like packages using VFP, however, VFP success would have been if there were 10,000...100,000 design-win enterpise projects which use of plan to use VFP. In reality, VFP programmers are not even invited for meetings to discuss these projects; and this is not because VFP is bad, but because VFP programmers do not drive their customers towards contemporary enterprise architecture, which is:

- portal based
- service orinted
- thin-client
- firewall friendly
- deployment free
- uses database with transaction support
- etc., etc., etc...

2GB limit was the size beyond imagination 10 years ago, and VFP was a viable choice in this aspect. However, now midsize company databases are no less then 10...20GB, and some tables definitely over 2GB. So, what was not an issue 10 years ago is a show-stopper now for more or less serious project.

Igor.