>>>>>>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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>>>>"If vfp was still developed,..."
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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.
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>>>Uhmmm...we did "go big" with *Microsoft* Visual FoxPro and look what happened to it :)
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>>At least there was a product with good support for over a decade.
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>>The last VFP savior was what... eTechnologia?
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>I wrote my first Foxbase program in 1987 and I believe it would still run on VFP if it had to.
>Except for RPG, COBOL and some very simple Basic programs, I don't know of any other 1987 language that can be compiled with today's compilers.
>That's a pretty go run!

That is a pretty good run. Too bad the product didn't keep up with the times.

Recital has been around since 1986; and the recital engine is at the heart of Lianja. And Lianja uses today's technologies. So I would classify Recital/Lianja as also having a pretty good run, and that run is getting new life in Lianja, running Windows and Linux Servers (no recompiling or rewriting), and running clients on Win32, X64, MacOS and ARM (iOS, Android and WinRT).