The particular IT guy is talking about storage and retrieval issues.
The volume is huge. In the range of 5K records per hour, 12 million per year, 24 months active before deletes.
That's the header table. Detail can be X 6 on average for records.

For them, MS-SQL is a scalable product, and Foxpro isn't.

Isn't the only 'bad' thing about DBF's is record addition, which can be compensated with creating millions of records ahead of time and doing record recycling?

We did a West Wind solution that is more than adequate for Canada...it's porting the app to the US, where the yearly volume is multiplied by 500.

So I don't think it's the language-win32 exe that's the issue, but the database. I told them that "upgrading" to MS-SQL poses no problems, we didn't do it (ms-sql) yet because of licensing issues.

Mark