Security and replication . . . sure, no prob, I agree. Reliability? I find VFP to be quite reliable. I have an app at a client site with millions of records being used by 50+ users and never have any data problems. Perhaps you could expound on this a little and further explain your statement on reliability.

>>It's a little late to chime in, but on that page you say:
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>>"SQL Server offers security, reliability, replication, and many other features of a full relational database engine while the Visual FoxPro database system is an open file based DBF system that does not have many of those features."
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>>I wish you'd reword that. It sounds as if you're saying VFP is not reliable, but we know it is.
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>DBF flat files do not offer security, reliability, or replication. What I did was list features that SQL Server includes and DBFs to not, which is accurate. There is nothing wrong with using DBF/DBC for the datastore in the application if you do not need those additional features.