It was apparently dead and not being discussed until you made your post. I'm sure you think you're absolutely correct and right on target with your four or five positive responses. Again, my experience in this programming world catering to huge multi-national clients, is that they do care. Your experience is obviously different, but don't say that "noone cares" because they do.


>Based on the reponses to this thread, with the exception to yours, I'd

>say I hit it right on the mark.
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>My purpose was to see if we could end the needless bickering.
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>>>So, having said all this, can we finally put this to rest here on
>>>the UT?
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>>So becuase you have had your say, everyone else should now accept your words as truth and nod in agreement and then just go away?
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>>I don't know what kinds of clients you support, but our clients (major banks with IT departments and some of the largest mutual fund companies in the world), all care about the software the base code is written in. They worry about the effect of installing extra software or runtime files on their servers. We have to jump through hoops simply to get stored procedures altered. Ask most IT managers in America about installing foxpro on their servers and they'd probably laugh you out of their office or try finding ISP's who allow you to install VFP runtimes on their servers.
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>>That said, it is spurious to argue that people don't care what the base is written in.