>Howdy Foxperts,
>
>The comments over in Chatter in the past week, no make that month, no wait! make that year, have prompted me to ask:
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>What can I show managment that will help explain the power of VFP and it's rapid IDE for data-centric applications?
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>I've succeeded at getting VFP on my desktop at work (for departmental apps only), but the corporation only begrudgingly allowed the purchase (It's not standard!! they cried) because my immediate manager (a non-IT person) approved it.
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>Talking to a departmental sub-head of IS (the one in charge of PC stuff whom I've know for many years) reveals that the stuff he reads about database apps in the trade press and from Microsoft suggests:
>for Personal stuff: Access
>for Small apps: Access
>for Medium apps: Access or VB
>for Big League stuff: SQL Server
>
>Notice anything missing? With his permission I've forwarded URLs of some VFP whitepapers, but I'm asking the UT community's help in locating document(s) that show how VFP shines for small & medium & large apps, no matter how the data is stored. Maybe even Microsoft documents.
>
>Thanks!


Randy,
I think there is a video from Steve Balmer on the VFP website that you mite want to check out. I saw another video at a users group meeting also. Perhaps you could send an email to Ken Levy on pointers for your task.
HTH,