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>We've gone so long *without* a "demise of VFP" thread that I'm beginning to suspect that they are now filtered out of the stream.


I can try to get one started if you want. I went to a MS preview event yesterday. The topic was using VB with ADO, MTS, ASP in a n-tier Web application. A big portion of the presentation was done by the guy who's title is Product Manager for Visual Studio. During his presentation he said how they compared the other parts of VS to VB for this project.

Of course the other parts meant VC++ and VJ++. The top of VFP didn't come up till someone from the satellite audience asked a question about where VFP fit into all this. The answer was that VFP would fit in where VB was or even as the data store if the requirements where not that heavy. But performance comparisons where never mentioned between VB and VFP.

He had a chance to mention VFP when he mentioned that for performance reasons any processing of the data was performed in SQL. It included a passing comment about VB not being able to process data that well. So there was a perfect opportunity to mention that you can balance the load even more if VFP is used as the business logic and data transfer tier, but it wasn't taken.


PF