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Why will we leave VFP
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04/06/2007 10:48:34
Victor Chigne
Inteliventas
Peru
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01228912
Message ID:
01230239
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24
As you said, since version 8 PostgreSQL has a native windows install, instead of the old Cygwin route.
We will take a closer look at Oracle and chek it out Fyrebird. I wanted to settle on one database to use stored procedures, but maybe we will have to settle in one commercial DBMS and other FOSS.

Thanks
>Hi Victor
>
>>Hello. I checked it. In fact, it's the default engine for local database in Morfik. Why do you like it over PostgreSql?
>
>Though I must confess I have not tried PostgreSQL, but when I was looking at the alternative for SQL Server, there was MySQL, FireBird, SAPDB (the OSS version) and PostgreSQL
>
>MySQL has licensing issues for commercial apps, PostgreSQL did not have (now it does) a Windows installer that can be used easily by low-tech people. SAPDB was very complicated and needed special hardware / OS which small clients generally don't have. FireBird became my choice because it has a very small footprint, generators, stored procedures, FB2 is more secure in terms of user security, non/low-tech installer, in short it is VFP like but it is yet an RDBMS.
>
>Just my 2 cents.
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