>>>Thanks Craig.
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>>Alex,
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>>You will need to learn a new language, new tooling, and different architectural patterns from VFP. This is a very high risk project you are undertaking. You should contract or hire people who know the new stuff.
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>You are right. We are considering alternatives. We may hire a technical director for the project who is very very capable with the chosen tool or tools, to design the application infrastructure, classes, etc for us according to our specs. Meanwhile we act as the client and learn to use the tool well.
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>Right now we are listening to opinions about which tools to use. I can say that the initial contenders are .NET and Ruby on Rails.
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>Alex

Hi Alex,

My suggestions would be Lianja or FoxInCloud. FoxInCloud should get you on the web faster. Lianja will create a SPA application with many options (including automatic phonegap integration,and many other options such as auto-rearrangement of forms based on device size) without any coding on your part. It really depends on your needs.

.NET will be a long slog, based on the questions I have read here and elsewhere about how to perform common actions (in VFP).

Ruby on Rails is last decade's technology,and you will lose the use of your existing business code.

With either FIC or Lianja you will get to reuse your existing business code. FIC will be faster to convert. Lianja will take you farther (a lot farther) without your having to become proficient in additional technologies. From the response our small, medium and large customers (very sophisticated retail inventory management) have given us, they want the kinds of products that can be used on phones and tablets, in addition to web-based desktop deployment. Lianja has that, out of the box. That's why we've committed to that direction.

hth,

Hank