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Commerical apps anyone?
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14/04/2005 16:23:04
Joel Leach
Memorial Business Systems, Inc.
Tennessee, United States
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01004578
Message ID:
01004884
Views:
20
We sell a verticle market accounting application (don't know if that qualifies as "commercial"). IMO, vertical markets continue to be a good market for VFP upgrades. I imagine there are quite a few companies like us that have developed apps using xBase technology since the 80's and 90's, which now have a ton of features. We want to stay current and continue improving our product, but a complete rewrite using another tool would be very expensive.

In general, our customers don't care what tool we use (they are much more interested in features). Occasionally, I'll get an IT guy that doesn't like FoxPro. Without fail, guys like this think the VFP is a database only, so throwing SQL Server on the back end would satisfy them.

>Just wondering if there is anyone else developing commercial off-the-shelf applications?
>
>We use VFP for all of our development efforts, including a commercial application that we have been selling for 20+ years. The program was initially developed with dBASE II and distributed using a compiler distributed by Wordtech Systems (I think).
>
>I'm just curious if there is anyone else doing the same?
Joel Leach
Microsoft Certified Professional
Blog: http://www.joelleach.net
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