Terry,

That seems an odd question, leading me to make a few assumptions.
The main one is that you are new to this "game" of programming.

It truly depends what *you* mean by "large". If you consider a few thousand records as "large", then ACCESS can do a job for you. Maybe even up to several hundred thousand records, provided that the records are not very big.

You can also access ACCESS data via VFP, using ODBC.

The larger question, thogh, is: Is it your app or theirs??? If it is your app, then you should make decisions like this (keeping in mind, of course, what the market will sustain) but if it is theirs, then they have a definite say. You should, however, be able to talk them into something "better" if VFP is actually better for this case.

Just some opinions,

Jim N

>Hi,
> Can MS Access be used to write large apps?
>I wrote a large (Network Ready) VFP 5.0 app for
>a group of clients. It is working well. However,
>they are questioning "Why did you use VPF instead of
>MS Access?". Some of them currently use MS Access
>to store their data and to write reports.
>
>Would like your input and comments.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Terry Harris
>[ ...and GMRider added: ] I'd be curious to know why you chose VFP too!!
>
>Why do you want our reasons for you writing this app the way you did? I have definite reasons why I use VFP and not Access, but they are irrelevant in respect to your already having written this app...