>>>I sincerely doubt M$ will sell Fox because the same thing will happen ... it will compete with their existing products. I see .Net as nothing more than a way to trap people into using SQL Server. Why should a small business buy SQL Server and pay license fees if Visual Foxpro can do the same job with no distributed fees?
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>>And SQL Express ( or for that matter MSDE ) means a lot of us haven't used DBFs for our VFP apps for years. One code base scales from mom and pop to enterprise.
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>Scary! I just replied almost exactly the same way to Arthur's message.
Another plus I'm finding now is that if the data is in SQL and the client asks for something that is easier to do in ASP .NET ( or with some fancy Infragistics thing ) you can point that at the same data. ( there is also somekind of tool to run the fox app as a process in the .NET app ( Strataframe has a sample solution doing it but I haven't got that far yet )
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