>>Mine was around 1997. After losing a few bids to VB/SQL Server, I spent some time learning SQL Server.
Within a few hours it was apparent that this was a much better way to store and retrieve data and that one of the key elements of Fox - data storage and retrieval handling with Rushmore had been rendered irrelevant.
Fair enough. I knew I had to use C/S as early as 1993 and was in fact doing so with FPW using the clunky library. 1994 was the crunch year. Powerbuilder couldn't do what I needed so it really was down to Delphi vs VFP with Borland pushing hard. Luckily I was invited onto the VFP beta program where the Remote View swung it for VFP- truly one of the most underestimated/misunderstood VFP features AFAIAC, along with persistent indexable local cursors that makes some things extremely easy in VFP and delivers a blazing fast customer experience.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
