>>We sometimes speak biased because we don't know other tools than VFP. You will be ofcourse singing in a different tune if you know how to develop real world application using purely DELPHI. The VFP data engine while fast enough is not reliable.
> Not reliable? More FUD. It's easily as reliable if not more so than the BDE. I have personally developed Fox apps using native DBFs with over half a gig of data. Others have done even larger apps. Continual DBF corruption more often than not is the fault of poor programming practive and/or bad network design - bad cabling, inferior hubs, poor server configs.

I haven't used BDE sorry. Exactly, that's why High-End DB came into the picture to address these issues. And so, my opinion of DBF being unreliable is still correct. Why? High-End databases solve the problem.

>And anyway, if you don't like it you can always use SQL Server, and in more ways than one (RV's or SPT).

Exactly that's what we did.

>This can't POSSIBLY be considered a negative compared to VB, you have to do the exact same thing! Data HANDLING commands and functions put VFP head and shoulders above VB.
Again, I've seen large app done in VB/SQL Server and it performs above par. Proficiency of a specific tool is the name of the game I think, not exactly the tool itself. While maybe some tool are superior than the other, it doesn't mean your app is successful if you use the superior one.

>2 years ago we did NO application development at my company. I was busy working on Citrix and other neat stuff. Today, I am working on my third VFP app for the third client we are developing applications for.

VFP Third app all?

>Another is unsure of using off the shelf or a custom app, but the off the shelf app they are considering is written in VFP. All three have been exactly the same - they have a job they need to get done. My highest level of proficiency is with VFP. App is done in VFP, end of story. Two of them mentioned VB during initial meetings. I said I would probably use VFP. They didn't bat an eye.

Because they don't mind about the future of the language you use. They don't have a clue what's happening in the software development arena. Our bread and butter apps are purely done in VFP but I can't blame those IT managers who critical about the language used if they have 2nd thought of getting us. Believe me, a lot of IT managers are just like that...