>>What's funny is that I've seen a few projects recently that went the Oracle
>>tools route. Sad scene. Two junior level VFP coders ended up rewriting the
>>original Oracle app in two weeks after a clan of 'enterprise developers' worked
>>on this app for 3 months without showing any progress.
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>What I find so suprising is the number of clients I deal with who 'expect' that I will be using VB as the development language to do their work in. If they require me to, I do. However, it seems that most of the time they want VB simply because they have heard of it and they still think of old xBase stuff when they hear the word FoxPro.

What if MS change the name 'FoxPro' into something new to totally erase that mindset besetting the business community?

>But I also think that as the 'expert' that my clients have hired me as, it is my job to make sure they are informed as much as possible about the options they have and why VFP really can be a better choice than VB in many instances.

Good move, and that's basically what we're doing. We even challenge them that if we can't deliver the product in VFP as expected, that's the time they start questioning us. We give them choice: In VB- longer turnover, Higher Cost, Slower DML; VFP - shorter time of turnover, Lower Cost, Faster DML.

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>Just one man's opinion, I could be wrong!