Hi,

It is worth having a "PART V - FoxPro Today - > What People Say About FoxPro" in http://www.black-beans.com.br/foxprohistory, like this one below?

TIA

Fernando


We asked some of the top Visual FoxPro developers to tell us what they thought of Visual FoxPro 6.0. No big surprise, they like it! (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/prodinfo/casestudies/quotes.asp)

Visual FoxPro is essential to our OmniTRACS mobile information software product development. We believe Visual FoxPro 6.0 will enable our team to be more productive and will provide our customers with powerful and scalable management information solutions while improving our time-to-market."
-Michael Harlan, software applications engineering manager OmniTRACS division at QUALCOMM Inc

"Visual FoxPro 6.0 is the fastest business development system in the market. With this new version, text manipulation speeds have been improved tremendously, which is essential when developing an interactive website. With one statement, I can read an entire HTML page from disk! I can then modify it with custom information and deliver it to the user via the Web. VFP 6.0 also contains some amazing new ActiveX components to deliver data via the web"
-Cristian Pellegrini, Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services

"The expanded support in Visual FoxPro 6.0 for COM and DCOM based development solidifies VFP's position as a key member of the Visual Studio suite. The availability of productivity tools was key to our selection of the Visual FoxPro development platform. And once again, Microsoft delivers for us in Visual FoxPro 6.0 with the addition of the Component Gallery. We foresee this particular feature to be an important tool in helping us organize classes and components in our product development efforts."
-Earl Begonia, SBT Accounting Systems

"I love compiling Visual FoxPro 6.0 classes as COM objects that I can use with Active Server Pages. This combination lets me build scalable thin client applications that serve FoxPro data directly to a Web browser. Encapsulating business logic as components lets me abstract the application, so I am ready to move the data into SQL Server easily without impossible programming workload. I can move a file-based high installation cost application into a thin client low maintenance client-server application without having to learn another programming language."
-Stamati Crook, Redware

"Visual FoxPro 6.0 now provides us with the seamless interoperability required by today's applications. OLE Drag and Drop, for example, allows us to create interfaces that intuitively exchange data with other applications. The improvements with VFP's COM Servers enable much tighter integration with other applications and cement Visual FoxPro 6.0 as a viable middle-tier solution."
-Chuck Urwiler, Micro Endeavors

"My favorite new feature of Visual FoxPro 6.0 is the combination of Active Documents and COM Server improvements. Many of our clients are requesting features that require three-tier, component-based architectures. These enhancements to VFP 6.0 continue to help us build flexible, component-based applications."
-Kevin McNeish, Oak Leaf Enterprises

"I really like the new Access, Assign and AddProperty methods in Visual FoxPro 6.0 because they make it easier to abstract framework-level features. I also like the fact that VFP 6.0 is faster, has improved Y2K compliance, adds several other welcome language enhancements, and incorporates new features that make it a better player in the Visual Studio/BackOffice suite of products."
-Drew Speedie, GE Capital Consulting

"The new access and assign methods get my vote as the most significant new feature in Visual FoxPro 6.0. The ability to fire an event when a property is accessed or changed gives us powerful new capabilities we could only dream of in earlier versions of VFP. One thing I know I'll use this for a lot is the ability to create COM objects that have object models based on collections just like Word and Excel do."
-Doug Hennig, Stonefield Systems Group

"The combination of Visual FoxPro 6.0 and the Microsoft Windows DNA platform is a winning team. VFP COM Components open the door to the vast territory of the legendary Visual FoxPro productivity and versatility. Developers can take the best from the two worlds to create very attractive and useful applications for the next millennium without throwing away all of their development skills."
-Arturo Devigus, Devigus Engineering

"Visual FoxPro 6.0 is my tool of choice because it combines one of the finest object models, an incredibly fast database, tremendous RAD capabilities and ease of use without giving up control over details. VFP 6.0's RAD capabilities combined with its ease of use make it the number one choice for everyone who makes a living by getting things done in time. My favorite feature of VFP 6.0 are access and assign methods, because they turn the old fairytale about software reuse into reality."
-Markus Egger, EPS Software

"Visual FoxPro 6.0 is so loaded with features it's hard to pick one that really makes it shine. I like VFP 6.0 because it's the one tool in the Visual Studio product line suitable for the development of all three tiers in a three tier architecture. VFP 6.0's rich object model, much improved user interface performance and improved ActiveX support make it perfectly suited for fat client front-end development. VFP 6.0's fast and flexible database access combined with its improved COM and DCOM support, the ability to pass ADO recordsets between tiers and its traditionally rich DML make it the ideal development environment for enforcing business rules in the middle tier. Finally, when you feel the need for speed, VFP's database engine continues to be the performance leader and applications developed with VFP as a back-end can easily be scaled to SQL Server with little or no code changes."
-Mike Feltman, F1 Technologies

"I'm looking forward to being able to integrate HTML Help in my Visual FoxPro 6.0 applications. It's easier to use, more useful, and better looking than either WinHelp or the DBF-style help. Users can find information that they're looking for more quickly, both through the outline control as well as the Index, Search and Favorites tabs, which means they use Help instead of caling us. And it's a snap to use - we merge our Functional Specifications straight into HTML Help in a matter of minutes. We're also using HTML Help to publish electronic versions of all of books in The Essentials series so that people can bring the books with them on their laptop.
-Whil Hentzen, Hentzenwerke Corporation