>>I'm one that feels the Visual FoxPro environment is large enough to keep me plenty busy. I realize that the demand for versatility is out there, however, other things do exist in my life and there's only so much time to do everything. I can remember a dated T.V. commercial saying, "the key to success is, choose 1 thing and try doing it better than anyone else". If the ability to do something at 90% - 100% proficiency is not satisifactory to an employer, then maybe its time to look for another trade. I've been using Visual FoxPro since the release of V3.0. I hadn't caught up to all its potential before the release of V5.0 and the same is going to be true for V6.0.
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>We are lucky here. I get to concentrate on VFP development. We have Web experts, NT admins, Oracle DBA. Personally, I think the best way is to have a diverse team of people with each member highly proficient in 1 skill but cognizant of other technology/development tools. We have also selected what I consider the best front end development tool (VFP), back ends (Oracle and VFP) and platforms (Unix but moving to NT for Oracle; Win95 [questionable to NT] workstations).
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>Disclaimer to prevent some mild flaming back at me: I know it is not always possible to have a good skill mix of people, and many have to learn and use multiple tools. I also have multiple duties that take awayt from VFP devel -- mainly computer support/hardware/software troubleshooting (ughh!).
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>Unfortunately, we have made our development lives difficult by deploying WordPerfect instead of Word, Lotus instead of Excel. As much as some may despise MS, at least it is a breeze to integrate the use of Excel and Word into VFP apps.

Ha!!! You can't prevent FLAMES...


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Jeff