Victor,

Once you have all this, it would be great if you could post the results into the archive here at UT for everyone to review and use.

Regards, Renoir

>Hello All
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>When I try to get a new customer for a database project, I always should face the following
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>customer concerns:
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>1- Why VFP? Why not Power Builder/VB/Delphi/Access?
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> I feel that VFP is superior to PB because PB is too expensive, and is not so suitable in 3-tier
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>development as VFP, and is somehow unstable. About VB, it lacks inheritance, and a native DML, and
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>a database project in VB takes at least two times development time than the same project in VFP.
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>About Delphi, I don't know, but I know that I can't find the superb tools we have for VFP (like
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>Visual FoxExpress)
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> But, not being an ex PB/VB/Delphi/Access developer I can't address this concern in the
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>professional and informed way I'd like.
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> To address this, I need the ultimate comparative resource, I mean an exhaustive study for each
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>competitive product, written for somebody very knowledgeable of the enemy.
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>2- But VFP is dead...or is too old XBase
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> I always point that VFP 6 was in Visual Studio, and that M$ is commited in the VFP 7.0
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>development. I say to them that VFP technology was used in ADO and in SQL server 7.0 . Then, I give
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>them a copy of the MIND article about VFP. But I always have the need of the "Official word", or
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>verificable sources of the information.
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> I know that some people here have access to the VFP team at M$, and even to Big Bill, I'd love to
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>have access to some official or not so official words from them, and more positive reviews from
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>magazines. Also, a paper about how the latest technologies (OOP, Internet, ADO, Activex, 3-tier,
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>MTS, and so on) are implemented in VFP.
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>3- VFP is not for Big database apps.
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> I need a case-study repository, about big DB apps in Fox, maybe the complete documentation of the
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>VFP excellence awards, and contributions about other sources (Accountmate, SBT, The US Army, the
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>eurotunnel...) I think that commercial software houses like Accountmate and SBT will colaborate
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>serioulsy with the Developers association.
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>BTW, count me in. My email is vchigne@corp-soft.net and i can colaborate with translations to
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>spanish of the documents produced.
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>Regards
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>Victor Chigne