>Yeah - that Security Fear really sells.

Yeah, people turn down Fox due to security concerns.

They seem to forget that there has only been one security alert/patch for VFP in the history of the product, and THAT was to turn off ActiveDoc support which had two years earlier been a big marketing feature!

Instead, they'll use SQL-Server without a second thought. Does anyone remember Blaster?!?!?!?!?!

(shaking head)

We fight it all the time, but we're big enough in our market niche that everyone comes back to us eventually. It's actually funny to watch. Some IT goon will turn us down because we're Fox-based, and the company is back two years later. Invariably we've already written the data conversion program from whoever they've been using since we get conversions from EVERY ONE of our competitors on a regular basis. (And some have paid us big bucks to convert from "us" to "them" because "them" can't quite bring it about.)

(shaking head)

The same IT goons that want to set up a SQL-Server are the guys who will set up a "file server" running WindowsXP and blame *us* when it crashes with 100 users hitting it. We're supposed to trust them to set up and properly administer a SQL-Server?!?!?!

(shaking head)

There's just entirely too much idiocy in the business world.