>>In other words you haven't worked with .NET or
>>SQL Server. Certainly there are other capable
>>modern platforms too.
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>SQL Server is powerful. It would be needed for large multi-user projects. It is completely unnecessary for medium or smaller projects, and makes what should be a simple design unnecessarily complex requiring unnecessary skillsets and maintenance to do simple jobs.
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>.NET is a dangerous platform. I will never support it. I have looked at it.
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>>VFP (and FoxBase+ and FoxPro) were excellent
>>in their day (era).
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>Their day isn't over. Countless apps are still in use, actively being maintained, not being rewritten because Vfp is so powerful, small, easy to augment, expand.
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>>I know of several VFP developers who absolutely
>>refuse to move on or acknowledge that there
>>have been advances since the 1990s.
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>You are a notably rude man, Mr. Kuhn. It is sad to see, and your comments are hurting people.

I am a mercenary and used whatever programming language I knew (13) and was required by management or the customer. If possible I would suggest FoxPro, as I think it is the finest programming language for robust applications, from simple to the most complex. Sometimes I got my way, but in the end it was the client who won regardless of the programming language used.

When I was consulting my bids would be 10% of the competition. I was going against other Visual FoxPro developers, and would charge an honest price for the required work. Guess who got the jobs? ME! I never had a customer complaint or a 2 AM telephone call that the sky was falling. :)

In my opinion there are a lot of idiots in management whom I have met and have had to deal with. The ones who made the decisions to go with the Microsoft Salesman’s advice made a bad choice.

Microsoft never promoted Visual FoxPro as they were trying to convince you to purchase Visual Basic, SQL Server, etc. I do like SQL Server, but for a very small shop VFP dbf’s work fine. Oracle is fine, and I have also worked with Sybase. You have to understand the clients needs and give them what they want. You will not change Microsoft’s approach to this topic.

You have to be prepared to do what is required to survive, and it is up to you to make your own decisions. I always liked to be six months ahead of the developers around me and I am happy I did!

Always try some "what if projects". New ideas and concepts have to be used. Try different development tools. Enjoy yourself!