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>The current XBASE app is too slow and requires too much programmer intervention. However, rewriting something that evolved over seven years and keeping up with the current business is a real challenge.
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>Could a pure FoxPro solution meet our needs? Most likely it could. However, I do have WAN with 15 users in an office in California. Our solution for remotes connectivity is Citrix WinFrame. Others here on UT have had performance problems with VFP's GUI on the WinFrame as I have had, but I follow their progress to see how I may address this issue.
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See my post below.

>If the users in CA are not happy, then the CEO is not happy. They are our most productive claims processors. So, with VFP, it would serve them better with a local dataset. But then how do I provide enterprise wide reporting? VFP lacks automated database replication.
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Actually, you may not want automated replication in your situation. You may wish to schedule background or foreground job runs to replicate the data to a master dataset with the (assumed) limited bandwidth.

>Anyhow, I will continue to follow the experience of others here to see how they address similar issues. If you have ideas on how to develop an effective VFP app for a WAN, please share your thoughts...
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>Regards,
>Jack Mendenhall


Clarify something for me, Jack. Is Citrix WinFrame that same thin client technology that MS is working on in Hydra? What is the WAN backbone (speed, etc).