To some degree, I think we all get that. But in the end, I know that I'm there to solve a business problem. Software is the primary discipline used to solve this problem, and VFP in particular (but there are many non-software components to solving most problems, too). And VFP can solve that problem in most cases better than anything else on the planet. And if you're dealing with real decision makers (read company executives) rather than naive IT folks, who cares what the IT people say? If you have a track record of solving problems, you can make VFP work very much to your advantage.


>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! ;-)