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>Thanks for the info Keith. I have some questions below:
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>>With .NET version 1.1, there are classes optimized for Oracle as well. The non-optimized classes for OleDB (any database that supports ODBC - including VFP), work the same as the optimized ones, only they aren't optimized.
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>What about using VFP as the database engine instead of SQL server? Our application is currently writting with VFP and might make sense to keep the backend in VFP.

That is what my current client is doing. We used .NET to put a front end to an existing VFP application.

Will the existing application and the .NET application both be updating the data? Will the data live on the webserver? If not, have you considered how you'll give access to it (the data) if it lives on an LAN?