>>>>>> You could pull a guy off a bus and he could do Access.
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>>>>That was exactly the point, so if that's correct, it was a success.
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>>>I agree. One of the problems Fox had is was that it became harder for the guy off the bus to use .
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>>That never had a problem. Access is a power user tool, VFP is a developer tool.
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>I'd disagree a bit Metin. I think the earlier versions of Foxpro where a lot easier for the ordinary person to use and then it became more of a developer tool which trashed its market share

That's mostly because of the lousy framework which came with VFP, compared with the decently good one that came with FPD. In DOS days, I've seen doctors, engineers and who not put together decent apps for the time. Now under Windows things got more complicated - fonts, event loop - and while Access had a relatively decent way to put things together, in VFP it really was a kind of a struggle to get an app working.

Which threw the amateurs off, of course.