Although I don't have much experience with delphi/vb since it was before my productive time, I can definitely see how they are an improvement in creating a fron

Although I don't have much experience with delphi/vb since it was before my productive time, I can definitely see how they are an improvement in creating a front client end very quickly. There is nothing about their design that should make the backend not handle multiple users or to use something more standard such as sql-lite.