>Wim,
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>>I want to know this becourse management here wants those reports for evaluation of the current softwaretool.
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>>I do disagree with the future of VFP beeing the same as other products. Look at Visual Basic. It's all around us. C++ is a core product. I Don't see much about VFP in the news.
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>VB ? Well I don't see it that often.. Remember that VB is a general purpose language and VFP is a pure DMBS language.

Hmm VB with access is the most chosen development platform in most projects i participate in. Not the best choice IMHO but it's a simple fact.

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>>Also saying there are to many developers is not a good reason imho. Java has a LOT of developers. And where is MS J++ ????
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>I doubt if there are a lot of MS J++ developers. There are many software vendors with their own Java dialect. MS must have a reason to discontinue the Java language.

Yups. You got me there ;-)

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>>I do agree that the product is a part of visual studio and is THE tool for me and the company. Only those F*.. managers should need that knowledge.
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>Of course you can state that VFP is the best choice between MS access and SQL-server. And even using SQL server VFP would shine.

I agree 100% with you. The problem is simply the media exposure VFP gets in comparison with VB.
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>I can only refer to the following dutch companies who use VFP in their products:
>- Accountview, developed by ridit(?)
Audit soft systems in Amsterdam. (I have build numerous applications with Accountview as backend accounting software). These guys are good and the product is great. (unfortunately the VFP version of accountview is been build by just 1 guy there, and he is from another firm, not a employee.

>- Exact Software uses add ons written in FP/VFP
Ouch, this one is outdated. The little pieces of code still in FP is comming from the Grote beer division and is beeing outfased.

>- Grote Beer has written numerous applications within VFP.
Yeah, worked with it in '96. Some piece of bugware. Got it to crash in 20 minutes after installation. They wanted to move to delphi at that time. don't know if they did.

>- DSB and Delta Lloyd uses FPW/VFP systems for decision support
Hehehe, Yeah true. They asked me to work for them half a year ago. they wanted to port from FP to VFP. Didn't pay enough ;-)

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>Maybe you could contact them and ask them why they do use VFP.
>I'm sure there are others.
I know why. The only 2 positive users are Audit soft and Delta Lloyd.

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>By the way..., Heerde, where is that on the dutch map ??
Grin, Its between Zwolle and Apeldoorn.

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>Walter,
Groetjes,
Wim.