I really don't understand some of what you're trying to say. Today, the 2 main development technologies are dotnet and java. I would assume that they would also be the majority techs used in anything behind the scenes.

No matter what, VFP is just not making a comeback. It seems to me to be common sense that languages would be aimed at corporations. One marketing call can net 100s if not 1000s of licenses vs. going after a couple licenses here, a couple there.

And I can tell u from my experience. Until 2001 or so, when I did corporate work, there wasn't too much discussion about the language. Foxpro had been selected maybe even 10 yrs or so before and no one thought there was a reason to change.

That thought process changed significantly around then when corporations started to look more and more at tying disparate systems together. And a vast number of VFP programmers were no help in this since they only knew VFP.

Also, I've noticed a significant difference between VFP places I've worked previously and working with dotnet/java people. VFP people just don't have the team discipline necessary to work in a corporate environment for the most part.

And unfortunately, no one is marketing development tools to the "one-man" shop anymore. Why? Practically any development tool used in corporations today can be used to develop small apps also. The big difference at that point is for the smaller apps, you might end up choosing a DB backend based on price.


>Perry, all good points- but possibly backward-looking? If MS and Google are correct that Cloud/SaaS is to become the accepted norm, customers won't get the opportunity to care what technology is used behind the scenes. If you Wikipedia "cloud computing" you'll see that this point is highlighted.
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>My recent experience in California: extremely large corporate customers purchased a SaaS deal. They cared about whether their data was leaving the country; they're totally disinterested in the technology used in the magic box that actually does the work.
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>IMHO: bring on the great big backend-agnostic new world. IMHO tech has become far too inclined to navel-gaze, worrying about technical minutiae rather than "value" and "advantage" and other stuff that matters to customers expected to write a check.