>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?

Rich,

U.S. Navy:

Naval Supply Systems Command, Mechanicsburg, PA
NFMIS - Navy Food Service Mgt. Info Sys. - in use for 6 years (from 2.6 to VFP6)

Naval Sea Systems Command, Arlington, VA
PMS377, PMS317, PMS312, PMS460 (program offices) - all using LANMIS, Forms, EFTS, ANCHORS, GFE, CDRL, ISCRS, Travel - all apps in VFP6 (many were rewritten/recompiled from 2.6/3.0)

Supervisor of Shipbuilding, New Orleans, LA
ANCHORS - Amphibious Navy Change Order Reporting System - VFP6- installed Jul 2000 (a rewrite from Clipper)

Avondale Shipyard, MS
GFE - Government Furnished Equipment - VFP6 - released in May 2000.
CDRL - Contract Data Requirements List - VFP5

The Navy also uses Access extensively but it usually for the quick & dirty, little stuff. Other Navy program offices like AEGIS and VLS are using Oracle but there is a lot of FoxPro in use in the Military and Government agencies (State Department, Dept. of Agriculture; Health & Human Services, Nat. Institutues of Health - to list some i've heard of) around Washington, D.C.,

also trade associations:
National Association for Gifted Children, Wash, D.C.
NEWT - VFP5 - in use for 3 years

I have encountered only one case of resistance from a Navy client over the choice of using VFP in last 6 years. Most care about the app working for them, not the language used. Problem is there are not enough VFP developers to go around here for all the work available in Wash DC area, so some of it goes to VB/Access for lack of VFP talent.

HTH,

Mark Rietman