>I'm referring to a Rich (using AJAX) and Responsive Web App., with complex layout, multiple and complex controls;
>not a

<form>…<input type="submit"></form>

kind of app.
>

I can see what you mean, and if you apply those same standards to VFP desktop apps, they can also become pretty unwieldy.

That said, there are millions of extremely productive

<form>…<input type="submit"></form>

apps in use in US business today.


The small to medium size business that I service- once a great VFP market- is now best serviced, in my opinion with .NET/SQLServer for desktop apps - there's still a huge demand for them- and by PHP/MySQL for web apps.

.NET has some great tools for connecting to MySQL data, so the marriage works well.

If I had a large VFP app that I wanted to put on the cloud, I'd certainly look at FIC, but I converted my large VFP apps, with a couple of exceptions that will soon follow, to .NET long ago.