I have not been following this topic - Please forgive me – But I’m here now…

What I do hear is some discussion over MS & VFP. What I observe is that VFP may be dying a slow death, this upsets me very much. I am speaking as a consultant who really likes VFP over many tools. Personally, I feel that VFP is a very good developers tool, VERY GOOD. I get frustrated when working on projects that are ACCESS, VB, or Delphi with there limitations.

Over the past five years I have seen FoxPro be replaced by Oracle, SQL Server, and other back ends for various reasons. Some of the reasons are: security – hard to work with – its not SQL Server or Oracle – its not true client/server – does not work on the WEB. All are bad assumptions.

Front ends are moving to VB, ACCESS, Delphi, and other GUI interfaces. Yet VFP is a very powerful and stable tool and has inheritance and is GUI.

The reason these IT/IS managers are moving away from VFP is that it is not a long term solution, “MS is dropping it”. What is MS going to do? I feel that they are taking the only tool that is a complete solution and passing over it… Gates – wake up---

VFP being advertised in IT/IS periodicals is a very good idea. Who do we call?


Thanks for listening…
John R