>There is no "more" in the statement. Now you did say "...DBF system does not have many of these features." but that is just wishy-washy marketing FUD... which of those "many" (I count 3) features does the DBF not have?... Oh, "security and replication", you say. So why did you mention "reliability"? I guess it was to be perfectly clear to the readers of the statement. Riiight!
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>As others said, VFP users/clients deserve better, especially from its "product manager".... from anyone from Microsoft, frankly!!

Reliability is not a feature that is built into the DBF system. It is simply a file system like TXT test files or anything else. There is not one feature in VFP that does anything to protect or repair corrupt DBF files, or to deal with power failures during updates, etc. Transactions can help with this, but it is all via custom coding and nothing native to the DBF engine or file system itself. I'm not saying anything negative about VFP, just stating the facts as they are.