Visual FoxPro - Windows 7 Compatibility Alert

The Issue: In recent months we've had more and more ProMatrix developers with old pre-VPME 9.0 apps telling us that their customers are switching to Windows 7 and the developers' old apps won't run in Windows 7. Apparently, the customers of these ProMatrix developers didn't switch to Vista (which was common), but are now switching to Windows 7 and the compatibility problems are only being found now. So, it is definitely time to resurrect a discussion of this issue and its solutions.

Issue Discussion Page: Accordingly, we created a Visual FoxPro - Windows 7 Compatibility discussion page. The purpose of the discussion is to describe the potential problem and to suggest possible solutions for VPM developers who need to update their VPM applications to VFP 9.0.

Important: If you have applications you created in pre-VFP 9.0 versions of Visual FoxPro and pre-VPME 9.0 versions of Visual ProMatrix, you must read this discussion.
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Open Source
We've been working with open source tools using PHP and MySql for several years now. We really like that development environment.

We are exploring ways to move ProMatrix toward that business model. In fact, we have started a thread in the Chatter section of the ProMatrix Forum soliciting your comments about how ProMatrix open source might work. We are interested in moving towards open source for not just our current products, but for future products like the ProMatrix MS SQL Server and MySql Toolkits and a ProMatrix web application framework. So, please share your thoughts with us.

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Team ProMatrix