>>>I will make a suggestion to check out WinDev from PC Soft, a French company. Their products use the same language for >>desktop, web/internet and mobile development including Android.
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>Jos,
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>do you get any resistance form clients not knowing the environment? we seem to swing from companies with no network/hardware support to those with overzealous ones who stir up against VFP, the WinDev product looks good but will it pass IT "consultants" scrutiny?
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>Gary.

Gary,

We don't have resistance to clients even with our VFP apps. It is not in the nature of our business. We provide software and content that our users want. It is important to them and it is a service that our clients need. The IT guys are not involved other than letting us install it on their networks and users computers. They don't care less what its written in as long as it doesn't give them any additional work, which it doesn't :)

Check this out; http://27130.foren.mysnip.de/read.php?27131,123941

It has a link to a video of a project developed by a French company that has used WinDev to implement / automate a mail sorting machine in France. It needs to OCR addresses on envelopes at a rate of 10 to 12 per second as it flies past a camera. It was all done in WinDev.

Also, many large companies use WinDev, check out their website and ask them for recommendations. Here is a link:

http://www.windev.com/pcsoft/testimonials/index.html