BTW, I sure hope you are receiving a recurring license/maintenance fee for

your creation. If not for Memphis PD then for new clients. I can see where

your legs could be trembling with excitement at the thought of even only 1%

of law enforcement agencies getting into your system. Now to beat the

competition. VFP as a back end is a good start <g>...

FWIW, I am still using VFP (v-9 SP1) for some of my commercial service apps,

and a nice mix with PostgreSQL where I need some scaling. It all seems to

work well enough, and the processes I run are on my own machines - so no

need for me to chase new OS platforms with client PCs. Most of my

commercial service apps run on a Win 2000 Pro SP4 platform under a bank of

VMware virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi equipped Servers. It kicks

ass. But, it pales in comparison to the technical accomplishments John

pulled off with his license plate scanning app.

John, congrats again. Words can't begin to express how impressed I am, with

the concept alone much less the technical accomplishment.

Gil