John ---

I think the thread was lost here. I wasn't harping on VB versus VFP....we were originally discussing technical proficiencies of VB and VFP people and not necessarily the tools themselves.


>>An enterprise solution with a number of different front-ends
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>Where is VFP's advantage here? Heavy footprint on the client, marginal support for ActiveX Controls. Best to go with IE or VB here.
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>>serious transaction load,
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>I don't think you will want to trot VFP out here. I gather you are aware of
>the concurrency issues with VFP with regard to MTS. VB wins here again.
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>>formal requirements studies, formal ERD or PFD (or CRC for >that matter),
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>What does this have to do with the langauge???
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>>monster database or databases with dozens of tables....etc etc.
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>OK, pick your database, SQL/Server, Oracle, even VFP DBF's.
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>How does all of this correlate to VFP? And more specfically, how does this really define serious data processing?