OOP, XML, C/S, ODBC, WinApps, n-tier, Data, COM, Rushmore, does it all. An OOP XBase descendent, very powerful for fat client, middle tier, and web applications. Visual FoxPro has a very powerful native cursor engine and great text processing capability. With FoxPro, there are perhaps too many ways to accomplish the task at hand, but it is a very flexible tool for building high quality Windows applications.