>>>>Thank you. I'm retired, so I'll keep on plunking away on VFP because I know it better than other languages and it is all I need for what I do. But on the other hand, I see a remarkable development tool being cast aside and that bothers me. I have always viewed VFP as a possible Oracle killer, but MS never went after Oracle which to this day baffles me.
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>>>Obviously, you never used oracle. It blows vfp out of the water as a data base. Power, speed, scalability, etc. No comparison.
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>>(oh, and don't forget price. <g>)
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>>Has Oracle Forms gotten any better? It used to be a pig and a bear to develop in.
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>Last one I heard was about a team which took four years and still didn't get a sufficient number of forms done to kick the app into production. And then a Fox team wrote the same forms in Fox against the same database in a few months.
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>But that was years ago.

That fits exactly with my experience, including the time frame.