>Mike;
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>I was hired due to my VFP/ASP skills, a number of years ago by an organization that shall remain nameless.
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>It took me 4 ½ years of trying to be allowed to place a VFP exe on one of our corporation’s servers. Ken Levy offered to help by meeting with management but management was not interested. The rule was – “No VFP on any corporate server”! Follow the rules or find a new employer!
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>One fine day a requirement came up for a mission critical report application using SQL Server data. A contractor attempted to do it in Access and gave up after two weeks of trying. He stated it could not be done and abandoned the project.
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>I asked if I could use VFP to create the required project and management told me to go ahead. I finished the project in one day, thanks to my personal Report Library. The exe has been running for over one year and everyone likes it.
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>Fighting city hall as well as the IT gods can be a difficult task. At age 63 I think I can say that with some degree of qualification! :)
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>By the way you can thank the Microsoft sales types for our corporate policy about not using VFP. They were the ones who convinced management that VFP should not be used!

Would'nt it bee nice from MS to tell us what kind of marketing is that?

Perhaps someone (MS official) will tell us that this was way way back <vbg>. I'm sure that Now everybody's aware of VFP within MS 8-D

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>Tom
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>>I've heard "Power corrupts", but I never heard "Power makes you dumb" until now. That admin has too much control. Hey! Maybe he'll outlaw Access next. ;)
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>>>I believe that too Terry, but we just had a potential customer return our product stating that their network admin wouldn't allow Foxpro on their system. I was in shock. Still am.