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if a cutting-edge group at Microsoft can't choose the appropriate database tool, it's hard to expect other people "to get it".
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It would be a tough sell, wouldn't it.... The question you have to ask is whether it make sense to be in the behavior modification business.


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I am saying that the Jet database, as implemented in the MDB file format, is inferior to the VFP data engine implemented in the DBC/etc file formats.
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Based on what criteria? Clearly, MS and many others would not agree with you. And assuming you are technically correct, does it matter? Assuming Jet is inferior, is it signficantly inferior? And...given that the upgrade path between Access to SQL Server is almost seamless, again, does it matter? I would dare say that while your argument may hold sway in a theorhetical/academic setting, in practical/real world, it does not.




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I would have expected the Whidbey team to know better, especially since the VFP8 OLEDB driver is a free/easy download.
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Except that you need the VFP 8 runtime to use the VFP 8 OLE-DB Provider.

Remember Steve, it is not a MS goal to incrase the awareness of VFP. If you finally begin to understand that, you will have answered your own question.