Rick,
I haven't yet built web apps, and although I would qualify your response
as, let us say, "slightly slightly slightly slightly biased" given where it comes from :), at the same time your response encompasses everything
I have gathered through the six months I have been perusing the
Universal Thread.
Which is why I put my original two questions to Gene as I could not
understand how he could make such statements.
And I would add to your response by saying that there is absolutely
nothing wrong in using third-party add-ons. In the world of PC
programming that happens ALL THE TIME ! ActiveX, NetLib,
West Wind Technologies, etc...., so it is certainly not a downside
to be able to develop web apps using a third party tool. And while I am
at it, it also happens at operating system level. How many sites
use Fax & E-Mail third party solutions rather than Microsoft BackOffice on Windows NT. Probably 60% !
Michel.
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>>And unfortunately, VFP is not suited for this. Microsoft's
>>solution is ASP\VB Script and MTS using VB (not VFP).
>
>I don't think so!
>
>First off ASP\VBScript is a separate solution that's totally
>agnostic to the backend used. You can use VFP, VB, C++ or
>whatever tool can create COM objects.
>
>MTS can use VFP components fine, although there are admittedly
>some scalability problems (those apply to ASP as well) in the
>currently shipping version. These are in the process of being
>addressed as we speak and should be available with the next
>release (Service Pack whatever)...
>
>Even without these in place, you can build VFP Web apps just
>fine using tools that don't come from MS. This site here
>is a good example, and I personally have built several
>large scale Web sites using VFP backends that were close
>to 750,000 daily VFP backend hits.
>
>Not only is VFP capable of building Web apps, it's uniquely
>suited to it, because of its flexible language and blazing
>data access. The Web VFP apps I built outperformed SQL and
>Unix Oracle solutions 3 to one on hardware that cost a
>10th of what the big iron cost.
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