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.
Probably from folks who have never used it. Their loss.

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.

We were totally VFP but we are switching to Oracle and platform independence. But, it will be several years before all the FP & VFP apps are replaced. VFP is much easier to program in and peruse data than Oracle.


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.

True. Most use Toad, PLSQL/Developer or, in Linux, Tora. All have free versions. PLSQL/Developer sells multi-seat licenses for $75 a seat, which is why we use it.


I am just wondering if we should change everything to some other product since the owners don't really endorse it fully.

Change is the nature of this game. Shift Happens.
JLK