Hi Graham,
Me too. I'm also building a VB based front and back office dealing and
customer service system for a large multi-national financial services firm
for the London office. Living in Boston in the US makes the commute a bit
tough, but…
We are using Sybase and SequelLink for data access, rather than the Gupta
product. Sharing data with an AS/400 (a requirement here) is a total drag,
but apart from that things are going well. Id be very interested in
comparing notes. If you send me a way of contacting you I'll call you when
I'm in London (this week).
– JwT