THREAD # 275178 10 NOV 1999

>One of the factors in deciding is what are the skills of your developers. I love VFP, but if a lot of my programmers are proficient with VB or Delphi, that's a big factor. There was a recent thread up here comparing VB to VFP that you may want to read, if you can get past the soap opera *g*.
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>>No. I'm a long-standing Fox person on both Mac and PC for a long time, but I have to list the pros and cons for an upcoming project. VB and Powerbuilder are main competition but I have to say something intelligent about Delphi.
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>>>I can't answer the Delphi question, as I haven't used it. But I did forget to mention two other important points:
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>>>6. Great 3rd-Party tool support: West Wind Web Connction, Stonefield products, xCase, Visual MaxFrame, Visual FoxExpress, yadda, yadda, yadda
>>>7. No brick wall. There always seems to be a way to accomplish what you want to do in VFP, usually in a couple of different ways. It's nice that when a client asks if you can do something, you can say, "No problem."
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>>>Do you work with Delphi?
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>>>>Great answers, but what can be said in relation to and in favor of Delphi?
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>>>>>Boy, that opens a can of worms, especially with the recent threads *g*. I haven't worked with Delphi, but my reasons for liking VFP:
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>>>>>1. Very, very fast
>>>>>2. Data-centric
>>>>>3. Object-oriented
>>>>>4. Handles the user-interface tier, business objects tier, and data tier in a n-tier environment, all in one package
>>>>>5. Did I mention fast?
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>>>>>>Can anyone tell me what the main points are for VFP as opposed to Delphi and what it does right?
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>>>>>>TIA