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>>>>>In the past this market was taken up by products like VFP, Paradox, Powerbuilder, FileMaker etc.
>>>>>Since Microsoft does not believe that there is market for such a product anymore, are there any third party developers thinking on what will be a good replacement for VFP?
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>>>>Check this out :)
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>>>>http://www.pcsoft.fr/us/
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>>>>local db engine, third party SQL engine, PC, Windows, Linux, Mobile, etc. I am interested in the mobile version for PDA development. I should add though that VFP9 is the dev tool of our choice for the foreseeable future :)
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>>>Jos, in your search for pda development tools, did you encounter any product that's cheaper than 'windev mobile'?
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>>I rarely use price as the influencing factor for development work. To me WinDev looks absolutely awesome. Read the PDF spec sheets and ask for a trial version. I think the price is reasonable for what is offered. I am waiting for them to do final documentation translation to English for the Mobile version and will then definitely buy it.
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>Interesting, but I distrust from who doesn't consider the bugs it departs some software.
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>There is not the word "bug" in their site.
>At the end I make the end that I have done with VFP:
>- 20% of the time use to my development plan
>- 60% of the time use to found bug workarounds
>- 5% of the time use to send to the MS 5% of the bugs that I found
>- 10% of the time use to look for a product where who develops it
>it knows the word "bug".

Hi Fabio. I agree, the WinDev site is a marketing site to sell their product. But their demo version ran very well but like you say ... But all software has bugs anyway :) My time is 95% development with VFP and maybe 5% I find problems with it. You are special case :) Like all tools each has strength and weakness.