>>- Quickly develop database apps
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>I can do that in VB
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>>- Royalty free runtime distribution (compared to SQL licences), making it a very cheap solution and reachable for smaller clients.
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>I can do that in VB with Jet/MSDE
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>>- No DBA needed, it's easy to install and maintain in LAN environments.
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>WIth SQL 7, you really don't need a DBA. And, with Jet/MSDE, you definitely don't need a DBA
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>>- On Lan environments it often is faster than any other (R)DBMS solution.
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>I Don't know about that. Unless you have benchmarks, you cannot prove this statement. It is pure conjecture.
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>>- On runtime compiling programs (Or using the VFP language in a Command Window Emulator)
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>So what? The VB debugging environment in many ways, is superior to Fox's. At least I can debug COM components in VB...
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>>- You can still develop DOS, UNIX, MAC and Win16 applications in the FOX language.
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>So... I can drag out an old version of Basic and write a DOS app. Is this a real advantage? I don't think so...
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>>- Quickly migrating old DBASE apps toward fox.
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>So... Do you really think there is a big market for this? If there are old apps being migrated, I would bet a lot are bypassing Fox in favor of something else..
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>>- The xBase language provides DML commands that have no direct SQL equivalent and are far faster than any SQL solution. (SEEK, SET RELATION, SET KEY, SCAN, etc)
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>I can do record by record operations in T-SQL. I can also do record by record operations in ADO.
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>>Do need to go any further ??
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>Yes. You will need to find that one thing that can't be done in anything but Fox.
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>Sorry...

FOx is OOP, i can make a FrameWork oriented to data, i can define Tables for rules using the DML without configuration of ADO, this is very fast, i can optimize querys with Rushmore, the Dev Time is lower because is oriented to Business, VB is oriented to Business,games, etc, etc.

Fox is more elegant in code what VB

The Jet is more poor what Fox Dataengine, why?

Jet take power of Fox Data Engine

why Microsoft buy Foxpro? for anything?