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News Item - FoxPro Will Be Relevant For Another 10 Years
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01200192
Message ID:
01200225
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22
Wait a minute! Why would that interest you? In fact, what are you doing here? I thought you'd retired and gone off to be body guard in Iraq or something :-)

>Nice article today on us "hardcore" types and the longevity of VFP by Ray Ozzie of RedmondMag.com. Here's an excerpt and link:
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>FoxPro Lives!
>I spent years covering databases for InfoWorld and Computerworld, and perhaps the liveliest market of all was FoxPro. Originally a dBase clone, it grew to outshine the Ashton-Tate tool and was eventually bought by Microsoft.
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>I even spent a week in Orlando at a FoxPro user group, and boy, those folks were hardcore. Some looked like they hadn't left their keyboard in a decade!
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>Microsoft tried to kill off FoxPro in favor of both Access and SQL Server, but users never let 'em.
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>So what is Microsoft to do? Build a brand-new version that's .NET 2.0-compliant and works with Visual Studio. With this kind of tweaking, I'd give FoxPro another 10 years, at least!
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>http://redmondmag.com/reports/article.asp?EditorialsID=444
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