>I have a Visual Foxpro application that a department in a corporation wants to use. However, the IT department is telling them that they don't want the FoxPro app in their environment. Here is one of their statements: "Many of these vertical market type apps have a single user or low-end version built on something like FoxPro or Access. We prefer a more robust, enterprise type version built on something like SQL Server." Is there really something to this - is Foxpro that much less "robust"? Are you all designing for enterprise environments - are there some examples I can point to?
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Point out that VFP can use a SQL Server backend with no problem; if you want, you can deploy initially with native VFP tables and upsize the app later. THere are legitimate issues that may demand a backend product - data security, replication, situations with limited bandwidth between the data store and the workstation where executing queries at the server and delivering a smaller result set across the wire is necessary all are reasonable issues that might rule out the use of native VFP tables for the main datastore, but VFP works with backends, and can still work locally with it's native file system.