Randall,

I take it that "everywhere you go" is restricted to within the company you presently work at.

What do the people in that $100 BILLION-handling department think of it?...What version of FP/VFP is that specific application written in?

Does the community-at-large hate SBT or the $100 BILLION application?

What is it that the Oracle/SQL Server guys beat you up about?... that it is an old and dying language while theirs is top-drawer?... that theirs is so fast compared to yours?

What do you mean by "I have to buy and learn a third party product to get what I can out of FoxPro"?????? What is it that you can't do natively that you need to do?

Why must the owners endorse any product fully? I imagine they get their advice from somewhere.

Your whole message is quite confusing to me and if I were detting it would be that you are looking for rationales to exit FoxPro development. If that's the case, I think that you have come to the wrong place.

Jim


>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! ;-)