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Is it true that VFP will no longer exist?
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11/07/2007 17:53:55
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., Nouvelle Zélande
 
 
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11/07/2007 17:41:36
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Catégorie:
Autre
Versions des environnements
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows Server 2003
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Divers
Thread ID:
01238766
Message ID:
01239529
Vues:
15
But, the market I develop for doesn't care about that. They need to use keyboards, local workstations, databases, etc.

Sure. Some things will always need a big screen and fast data entry. In 2007, the way to offer that is certainly via a local workstation. But things change. The person sitting at that workstation also has a cellphone and uses it for functions that required a keyboard a year ago. She uses her txt service to check eBay prices and make bids. She pays bills. She sends personal e-mails she doesn't want to send across the office network. IMHO that shift is going to accelerate. If she gains the ability to use a bluetooth keyboard and screen from her personal device, she'll start wondering why it makes sense to fight the traffic to come to work and sit at a desk to use a device that was in her pocket the whole time. The trend has already started: in healthcare, most institutions are considering or have already enabled clerical staff to work from home using a variety of devices. Evidence strongly suggests that productivity rises when you do this. So where is the downside?

Eventually technology will allow people to abandon the keyboard altogether. IMHO the crash of a billion discarded keyboards hitting the dust will be audible half-way across the galaxy. ;-)

Hey, of course I accept what you're saying- you have to deliver to what's available today, not Flash-Gordon hopes for what may come tomorrow. I guess I'm just proposing an alternative that has less to do with vendor channeling of developer concerns. There's lots of other cool stuff going on out there and the early bird catches the worm.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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