Jos

You asked for experiences with GoGlobal

We have installed Citrix in the US but I'm pretty unhappy about it's shortcomings

Like all such systems, GoGlobal included, any temporary exclusive use files have to me moved off the C drive as the C drive is the 'property' of Citrix etc - this was a big job but we used GoFish to change all C:\ references to T:\ with a great amount of success

Citrix was very weak on printers - it ignored any printer and form sizes in reports and in the end I had to write ? and eject commmands

Otherwise Citrix was very good

GoGlobal looks as good as Citrix with 1 major advantage - it obeys printer and form sizes in reports and even if it's using 'report form to printer prompt' the correct form size for the printer comes up when the printer is selected - we are still testing GoGlobal but it looks like the system we will use in the future and will convert our US Citrix box to it

HTH

Colin

>Victor, can you give some more info on and experience with GoGlobal please. eg your experiences, what about multiple users, etc.
>
>>GoGlobal was the answer for my needs......full VFP application on the Internet, pretty fast and without changing a line of code. Very low resource consumption and the price is very good (but not free).
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>>>Hi Cetin,
>>>
>>>For the future of VFP I'd like to see Rick Strahl or someone with his skills (are there any of those?) create a way to access VFP apps from the browser in a manner similar to the way that Visual WebGui allows access to WinForm apps from the browser. Specifically, what Visual WebGUI does is to use AJAX to send messages to the server which is running an instance of the application for each user. The server then sends messages back to update the browser. That way state is maintained between calls and WinForm apps can be run either locally or via the web.
>>>
>>>See Rick's blog about it. http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/180727.aspx
>>>
>>>I think the ability to extend the usefulness of existing VFP apps is awesome, not to mention leveraging the skills of VFP developers.
>>>
>>>What you think of this approach for VFP apps?
>>>
>>>Alex
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Hi everybody,
>>>>>
>>>>>I haven’t been developing VFP programs for about one year now. We need a database and I want to convince my company to use VFP if this is right of course.
>>>>>
>>>>>Some people in the company say that VFP is not supported by Microsoft any more. They believe that we shouldn’t spend money on something that might be obsolete very soon.
>>>>>
>>>>>I was wondering if someone can give me some leads, so I get a solid idea on this.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thank you,
>>>>>Ali
>>>>
>>>>I wouldn't fear by the support end in year 2015. Though support ends my applications would continue to work (like support for older versions ended but even foxbase applications continue to work). Details are our trade secrets but in summary customers' feedback, surprisingly, is towards that we should continue with VFP mostly (instead of deciding ourselves we ask them).
>>>>
>>>>However, OTOH, if you could spare time to learn new things, the stuff for learning is out there for free. You'd at least feel much more armed when you need it. I for one, while enhancing the existing applications and continue to do new versions with VFP spare time (mostly afterhours) to do parallel versions in other backend and languages (I use SQL server 2005,C# and Devforce if you ask). I reached a fluency level with SQL2005 and C# but still yet I couldn't get nowhere near the VFP version. I always preferred to think it's my own inability to understand and use .Net effectively (IOW I still can't dare to say publicly, when it's data .Net cannot cope with VFP, oh did I just say it. Need to find a flamesuit). Probably .Net would close the gap soon and may even be better on that area too (BTW SQL server is already ahead, keeping that aside I think they didn't plan .Net data classes right from the start. Wow more flamesuits needed).
>>>>
>>>>Cetin