I have gotten the same responses, but never from people who actually use VFP. They seem to have heard somewhere that it is bad. I use it for our internal software, and it certainly works better than what we converted from.

>It seems that everywhere I go, folks hate FoxPro. The last comment I got was that it was a super version of a spreadsheet program.
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>We have a totally FoxPro environment in one department that handles litterally $100 Billion dollars worth of transactions a year. It works fine. The accouting package in that department is SBT which is written in FoxPro. Still, the community at large hates the application. I really get beat up when I talk with Oracle and SQL Server guys.
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>I mess around in SQL Server and Oracle. It seems to me that I have to buy and learn a third party product to get what I can get out of FoxPro. People have hated this product since I started using it in 1992. Hell Microsoft tried to push Access for years instead of Foxpro.
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>I am just wondering if we should change everything to some other product
>since the owners don't really endorse it fully.
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>This is of course, just my opinion as I know it to be! ;-)