>>> If they have that much money floating around I would think it would be a HUGE mistake to give them a new VFP app when you could give them a new .NET or whatever app that's ...ya know...in the mainstream.
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>Mainsteam? IMHO nothing for the desktop is mainstream. It's all sunset. That's my point: if you have to deliver desktop apps, might as well be something that can be copied on there and will run immediately. In my target market there's an awful lot of XP out there, even Win2000. In fairness not many have dragon desktops these days but certainly I'm seeing low spec low power machines out there. You can't run Wintel on the $25 Raspberry Pi but it runs OK on one of the newer Atom boxes, allowing acceptable performance by VFP but not always by some of the "mainstream" options out there.

All valid points. Of course the more I think about it - heck if you have THAT low powered machine then heck you probably would be better off with a web app instead of a desktop app anyway. That you could run off a $25 Raspberry Pi

>>>I assure you there are more C++ developers with database skills avail that VFP developers. Even so if that's an issue then dont use C++ use something more 'mainstream' if your concern is finding developers. Let me put it this way - if your concern is finding developers - then VFP is a HUGE no no.
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>Not sure I agree. IME C++ database developers were a dying breed when VFP3 came out. Meanwhile: once a VFP developer, always a VFP developer... which probably is true for most of the 4GL database products The question that matters surely is "why would somebody want to go back to VFP." If they're stuck in a sunset option, maybe the question answers itself. Maybe Hank Fay will tell us in his sessions on Lianja. Who knows.

Well one thing though is that C++ is still being updated whereas VFP is not. Plus just the numbers of C++ apps is a zillion times the number of VFP apps - so I still think C++ would be a more logical choice between the two - but then again perhaps neither is a wise choice at this point.