>Hi Fred
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>If you get paid by the hour, Oracle is the way to go
>If you get paid by the job, not so much :)
>
>I think the problem might be people are TOO productive with Foxpro!

LOL! So people who get paid by the hour should start ANTI-FOXPRO campaign...

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