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>>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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>>Thanks for any suggestions,
>>Pat
I've encountered the same. Why are we always pitching an end user product to the IT dept? The trick is getting the end user to buy it, and then have them demand that IT get it installed.

I have heard ROBUST a lot. What does that mean? You just have to accept: Rhinestones don't like hanging with diamonds - and figure a way to work around it. One method of getting past this is to make your app "POST" output to the backend, while all the management is done through a secure networkdirectory that only your app and IT has priviledges to. THIS IS A problem we need to solve. Intranciant IT types worried about their turf and needing to feel like they're part of something they can't do: Design a fast. seamless app that solves their employers' problems.

It's almost like IT departments are SQL reps, ain't it. We need to feel their pain.:)