>Except that VFP isn't a SQL Server killer, or even a competitor. SQL Server is not an application development environment. VFP is not limited to playing with itself, or even to MS-related products - neither is VB. Or PowerBuilder. Or Delphi. Or (please forgive me lord) COBOL. SQL Server has nothing to worry from your small-cap firm, and neither do Oracle, or Informix, or DB2...cripes, even PostGres will wave as you slowly slink off into the sunset.



The good old days when this guy named George Tate sent a little blimp floating around this conference called COMDEX telling everyone about this thing called dBase. Some guy named Wayne Radcliff created it. I remember those days very well. I can't recall any other product or derivative thereof being arround as long except Basic and COBOL.

VFP could play with itself all day long and not care about anything else. Furhtermore I've seen mySQL on Linux outperform SLQ 7 and NT with a 6 Million record table (my first UNIX install was 1983). Had MS fully developed FOXPRO's database engine to its potential, SQL server would not exist today and there would be FoxPro SQL instead. Have you ever tried running FoxPro 2.6 on SCO Unix with tables in the million record class? I've had several and have one right now on a Pentium 90 class machine servicing about 40 workstations. FoxPro 2.6's last update for Unix I believe was about 1989. SQL 7 does not even come close or will it ever come close to this performance.

I like the sunsets. Thank God for FoxPro. I've done very, very well since 1982 when I got license # 4037 of dBase II. And soon moved on to FoxBase, etc. If I had to do it all over again, what would I do differently...Invest about a zillion dollars in Microsoft stock in the early 70s.


Enjoy the Sunsets,

Alfred Menendez

P.S. We are heavily into SQL 7 right now and in fact converting our main app to work with SQL 7. Why, you can't swim against the current and then expect to enjoy those beautifull sunsets at the end of the day.