>>>Why rewrite and port to a platform (be it Lianja or anything similar) that is a niche platform? For that matter, why rewrite at all? Your goals seem to be for a more modern interface, not a rewrite of your entire app. With something like FoxInCloud you can convert your VFP to HTML/JS/CSS and still maintain the ability to develop in VFP or HTML/JS.
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>>actually having locally installed apps on tablets for medical is one of the larger markets IMO.
>>You don't want to be dependant on WLAN and Browser speeds when making rounds,
>>replicated and often synched local data sound MUCH better.
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>>> The only long term major not going anywhere platform right now is HTML/JS.
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>>Which Lianja conviniently supports as well. Coding the GUI in JS in Lianja might be the wisest way to stay "installed" and/or "browsered".
>>If vfp was still developed, FoxInCloud might be more of an option, but as vfp cannot reach ARM devices natively...
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>Probably Lianja won't be in a few years either. They are a pretty small company, after all.
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>The safest bet is to go big: like Microsoft or Google OR go Open Source. Small proprietary software tool companies that try to do it all are sooo last century.

Uhmmm...we did "go big" with *Microsoft* Visual FoxPro and look what happened to it :)