Hi, Denis.
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>If you had that much problems with data handling in VFP perhaps the problem is you? 8->
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I was sure there was something I was missing! 8-)

>Please that that as a joke Martin. There's no second level to it.
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Don't worry. I know you.

>I just find those arguments so bizarre. How come you have'nt respected you customers more than that when using something you knew was so bad? Unless there's something I don't know. Did you stop using DBF as soon as SQL Server was available or for that matter as soon as another client-server was available?

When I started using FoxBase+ 20 years ago there were less tools available and they were REALLY expensive. For Latinamerica things were even worst, as we had to pay a higher premium than now for that kind of stuff.

Anyway, at this time in the technological landscape, things weren't so bad. Most systems wasn't even multiuser!

I started using Informix and Sybase for some customers who can afford them. Then Sybase made a SQL Server version for Microsoft, Microsoft ended up making it its own product, and I started using SQL Server more often, although we keep using DBFs for smaller customers who couldn't pay database licenses. Weirdly enough, our support people spent a lot more time with the small customers than the bigger ones.

We happily started using MSDE when it become available, and since many years we almost discarded DBFs. We still have some die-hard customers that has their own people to deal with DBF problems from time to time, but we are basically using MSDE for installations below 20 PCs when they don't go to SQL Server right along.

For me the VFP data engine is amazing, but not for the corporate information, but for local cursors, blazing-fast metadata, configuration, etc. Corporate data belongs to a database server.

Is this so bizarre?

Regards,