Doug,


I agree that Foxpro will continue to provide cool stuff for a little while. However, it is apparent that the next gen stuff ends up in VB first. As it is, new corporate development, in MS shops, is almost totally in VB. As a matter of fact, I keep watch of the LA Times classified. VFP ads have gone from 5-8 on Sun to 0-1. Of course, I've seen several for the LA area on Dice.com. So there might be a paradigm shift there also, as recruiters try to get their ads to a more national audience.

As far as using the Internet as a network, I do some of that now, as some of my data is remote. I know that Rick Strahl has talked about the Internet as a network for some time. I intend on seeing him speak on this topic in New Orleans.

PF

>Perry,
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>Since you're prognosticating, mind if I jump in?
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>>Also, I think with the Internet, we are at a paradym shift in computers. You can see the results of these type of shifts when you look at the old guy in the corner, who is there because he's the only one who knows the mainframe system.
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>>I think we'll see an IS shop with lots of folks running around passing SQL Server or some such data back and forth in various formats with tools such as VB, and they'll be 1 or 2 people in the corner maintaining the Monolithic Foxpro app.
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>I'd tend to agree with this but suggest two things to think about:
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>1) FoxPro will continue to provide us with some way cool middle tier stuff for some time to come, plus some good desktop stuff and SQL will continue to expand the back end domination for MS shops.
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>2) Rather than thinking about how we, sitting at our desktop systems "go out" to a web site or web sites... Start thinking about how remote data comes to your desktop. I contend that thinking in this fashion turns the whole (gack I hate this next word but it fits) "paradigm" on it's head and will open the flood gates to a whole new generation of applications.
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>Let's face it, the Internet is just a big network.
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>Best,
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>DD