The BDE has been deprecated for several years now, and only a moron used it before that.So this entire tirade is about an outdated, deprecated piece of technology. That's great!"I got a job making some changes to this application for a client of mine. It was written in VB1.0 to run on Windows 2.0, and man is it a piece of crap! Plus, I think the guy who originally wrote it was a high school student - you should see some of the long functions he wrote!It took me a year and a half to fix, but I actually didn't do what I was paid to do. Instead, I just cobbled in some halfway working stuff and left it for some junior programmer to actually fix later.By the way, want to hire me to work for you?"