Dear John

>>but it does tick me off a bit that some here discount me as a fraud. And at some point - I do have to meet those charges.... In the end, it's sour grapes and the bitter taste of them bring wrong..

Err... no, there is some recasting going on again. So:

First, "well done" writing a VFP6 app using SQL Server a few years ago. Now, back to the present: you've issued quite a lot of advice here recently. The old VFP6 app is impressive, but you may recall telling people not to do the VFP6 exam because it is so obsolete? And a VFP6 app doesn't give you authority to tell people to move to dotNET (since you haven't yourself) or about HIPAA or mom-and-pop operations.

Next: you've told people that VFP has "lousy" remote data access, yet we discover that your current fulltime role is using VFP and Oracle. Must I dig out some of your own advice to serve up to you?

And remember you said that VFP was only used for "po-dunk" work? How does that relate to the current fulltime VFP work? And the VFP app that is supposed to impress all we po-dunkers?

Finally, a lot of people here would be surprised to hear that you have just one customer and that you are using VFP fulltime with Oracle. To justify some of your advice, you'd need a huge customer base and be using dotNET fulltime, not VFP. I would never accuse you of being a fraud, but I must say I am surprised +++ to learn that you have a fulltime VFP role yourself, and just the one customer.