>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! ;-)

I have a client, who always curse my FoxPro. This year he ask me for upgrade of the application. I answer that I couldn't afford to support him, because I have not nerves for this. Six months later he continue with old apps and try to persuade me that I must continue to work with him.
In my country there a sentence - With it is bad, but without it twice bad.