Do you mean Craig's suggestion, or my suggestion (Lianja)?

Just in case you meant Lianja, it is true that it is aimed at the Access programmers in workgroups or SMB's, in part. That's a huge market, and in fact that's where xBase, and Fox, has its roots.

Lianja is also, however, highly scalable and clusterable; it is "large numbers of users" multi-user performant. If you need to deploy to 5,000 users hitting a single database, you really want to give this product a look. Lianja has done a good job of making it easy; that doesn't mean the product isn't capable.

The fancier developer tools I want (e.g., integration with xCase for data design; a Business Rules dictionary tied to metadata) will come with time (as we build them): what's important is that all the objects and hooks we need to do that are either there, or will be provided if we need them.

Hank



>I think so it's just for VFP developers who develop application for his/her own company.
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>>In addition to Craig's good suggestions (pretty much the MS recommendation these days), you might want to take a look at a new product, Lianja (www.lianja.com). The only caution is that it's a new product (1.0 being released at the end of the month). I find it pretty exciting for its capabilities. Andy MacNeill did a nice podcast interview with Barry Mavin, the creator and owner, and myself at http://thefoxshow.com.
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>>Hank
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>>Disclaimer: I am the author, with Frank Camp, of "Hello, Lianja", a bookzine (tm) combination book and magazine, that will publish along with the release of Lianja, and monthly thereafter.
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am a VFP programmer for a few years and today have a question: what should I do next after VFP? Is there a future in VFP?
>>>What language should I learn?
>>>
>>>Sorry for those questions, looking for some ideas and advices.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>Jerry