>Hi,
>At work we are upgrading all of our production systems to Oracle based products. There are some areas that are not covered by the new systems and need to be coded.
>
>We are all currently Fox2.6 and VFP3.0 programmers. Our mgmt is considering some of the top 4GLs as development environments. Powerbuilder, VB, Delphi, and Oracle's Developer 2000.
>
>The toss up is down to Powerbuilder and VB. I say if we're gonna pick VB, why not just stick to VFP5.0, but failing that argument. I have some ??s comparing VB to VFP:
>1) I know you can connect to a Fox DBF in VB, but can you "Seek" and open Fox CDXs?
>2) Is it easier to connect to an Oracle table with VFP5 or VB5. Oracle is sitting on DEC Unix.
>
>Thankx
>John Morga


The ease of connecting to Oracle will be about the same in VB as in VFP. Both will use the same ODBC drivers. However...you'll need to do something with that data once you've pulled it locally. This is where VFP really outshines VB. Also...VFP is OO...VB is not, it is object based. What this relates to is decreased development time. Also, you need to consider the retraining to learn VB..

You might want to take a look at the whitpaper comparing VB, VFP, Access, & MS-SQL Server. It is available at www.microsoft.com/vfoxpro.

Craig