>>Hi all,
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>> I'm interested in updating some users from their long list of old R&R reports to an updated app accompanied by a reporting tool they could still manage for themselves, even with my help/tutelege when needed. The app will be VFP 9.0 and the back end will continue to be DBFs for the foreseeable future.
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>> So, out there... any experience, opinions, reviews with the two big contenders (to my knowledge): Stonefield Query .OR. FoxFire?
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>>TIA,
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>>Steven-
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>Unlike the retired Stonefield Reports, I believe that for both Stonefield Query and Foxfire you have to manage the seats/licenses for each customer site, based on the number of users permitted to run the add-on. So you get to deal with administering access for each customer as they add more users. But you could also markup the add-on so its less painful to manage.


I've been known to be wrong on occasion, but this is my take on Foxfire licensing.

See: http://www.micromegasystems.com/foxfire/licensing.htm

I don't see a per seat license requirement except for developers.

If you have a commercial app. (same app. sold to two or more customers) you have to purchase a separate license for each customer.

If it is a custom app. for one customer only, no additional licenses are needed regardless of the number of seats/users at the site.

I think it's a good product that depending on the customer, could require a lot of hand-holding. At times I think I could make a career out of developing reports, but....what the heck...it's billable time:) I just hate developing reports.