>Looking for opinions...We are looking at designing a new in-house application that upper management wants to ultimately reside in an Oracle database. Number of users initially will not be great (40-50). We are trying to rationally determine what type of front-end to utilize. Personally, being a old FoxPro developer (from FoxBase on) I recommend VFP. Other products mentioned have been Power Builder and Oracle for forms. Does anyone have any personal recommendations.
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>My initial gut reaction was to start out with just VFP and eventually upsize the code to an Oracle backend. Does anybody have anythoughts or experience with this situation and what pros and cons that you experienced.
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>Understand that this a VFP thread and opinions might be biased but I really am looking for some type of real life recommendations from people who have been through this before so that Upper Management can make an informed decision.
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>Thanks,
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>Wayne Frenck

Hi Wayne,

To add to what Mark & Sylvain have told you. If you plan to do your data access via ODBC, know that the VFP ODBC driver does not support using stored procedures. I found this out the hard way. So you are looking at putting everything on the client side. So when it comes to finnaly upsizing to Oracle you will have to re-write your applications. Unless you are like me and your hands are tied. I would recomend going straight to an Oracle back-end. Your applications will run faster and smoother. Resulting in happier users

HTH
Mike.