Kevin
The US part of the company is doing some frontend stuff in dotNET but we still use VFP for certain backend work where Rushmore against local tables makes it a complete no-contest. I can immediately think of one app using a 60,000-row lookup that wiped out the server if you tried to load it into a dataset and was far slower using queries even with an mdb or MSDE right on the same box. Will that be the case forever? I doubt it... but it is today, and today is the day I want the customer to write a cheque ;-)
I try not to trumpet too loudly about these things because this is just "anecdote" and I hold that "the plural of anecdote is not data". I'd also hate to see my experiences applied uncritically to other circumstances where they have no bearing. This is true even though I've a lot more customers (and therefore wider experience) than certain others as well ;-)
Regards
j.R
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1