We have a client (15 employees) who can use either the desktop or the FoxInCloud Web version of the app (same data, functionalities and similar interface).

Desktop app is about 4 times faster than the Web app (server overhead), GUI is much rougher (see attached)

No chance they'll ever use the desktop app (though I advocate for) -- everyone works on the Web version exclusively.

This is another indicator that desktop apps can't survive against web apps.

>>The problem we have today IMHO is that we have too many choices on how to do things and everybody thinks we should do things differently.
>I see that as an opportunity, not a problem.
>Those of us who chose Fox circa 1987 from the miriad alterntatives- actually, there were more then than there are now- made a satisfying and lucrative choice
>I asked myself then, as I ask myself now, "Ten years from now, how will this direction look to you and your clients?"
>During the mid 1980's I was convinced that THE answer would arrive and it did.
>I had my Ah Hah moment when I was evaluting mainframe applications that started at $250K and someone showed me a DBASEII app that did all that the mainframe apps did and more, and cost $2500.
>Then I discovered that Fox was even better, and off I went,
>
>For desktop apps, .NET is surely THE answer but for web apps I haven't found that kind of certitude and probably won't for awhile.
>Right now, I'm using .NET/SQL Server and PHP/Mysql.
>Both are OK but neither gives a satisfactory answer to my question.
>People are spending tens of millions of dollars on mediocre web apps.
>That will change, as it always has, because the opportunity is huge.