>Hello,
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>I've been ask to help justify my business area's use of FoxPro/Visual FoxPro. My assigned role is to find Companies, Organizations, Industries and Businesses that use FP/VFP and write a short sentence on what they use it for?
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>For Example: ABC Space Rockets, Inc. - "they love it & have all critical flight guidance systems programmed in VFP!"
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>Any insight or input you could provide would be appreciated.
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>Thank you!

Some of the projects I have worked on...

The SSI Group - Medical Billing Software --> Installed at over 1000 hospitals and other medical facilities to help process patients bills

The SSI Group - Medical Billing Clearinghouse --> Processes $Billions per year in medical claims.

The SSINet - Intranet site built using VFP6 as a middle tier object that produces reports from several backend database systems and presents the information to service personnel in XML format displayed in a browser. Several other functions were automated with this system.

ICAMS - Insurance Claims And Accounting Management System --> Workers' Compensation package - Complete policy processing, claim processing, accounting, etc.

LifeTrac - 911 for Paramedics - Routes paramedics that work in the field for Stroke victims, and trauma patients. It's been running in Birmingham, Al for over 2 years. The mortality rate of trauma patients has dropped 35% since introduced, and the number of days stay in Intensive care has dropped from 15 to 10 days.

The reasons VFP/FP were used... the majority of these systems need heavy duty database processing without the cost of a large data server. The only logical choice is FoxPro. OTOH, the systems can also use a database backend when VFP can't handle the demand - but it's hard to hit that threshold.

HTH