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
Nebraska Dept of Revenue