I wrote the Eurotunnel app. Thanks for the comments.

- Val Matison


>Just as an aside on this....ads are already placed for open positions with the company that Brian works for....
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>>I remember reading Mac Rubel's June 1998 FoxPro Advisor article entitled "U.S. Military's Secret Weapon -- Visual FoxPro!" about the Joint Flow and Analysis System for Transportation (JFAST). I have never seen a JFAST demo but it along with the Eurotunnel project are two of the most impressive VFP apps.
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>>An in depth article on CFAST and how Brian Jones created it would certainly go a long way in showing the power of VFP and would make an excellent success story. Hey Ken, any chance of showcasing CFAST on the main VFP web site?
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>>Here are some excerpts from the DevCon 2002 coverage on CFAST:
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>>Day 2
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>>One of the most interesting presentations was "CFAST and Visual Foxpro" by Brian
>>Jones. CFAST stands for Collaborative Force-Building Analysis Sustainment and
>>Transportation". It allows the milirtary planners collaboratively construct major
>>military forces and sustainment, plan theyr deployment and assess different
>>scenarios. To meet the challenge of reducing the operations planning time by 50%,
>>CFAST employs such key Microsoft technologies as Visual FoxPro, .Net, Share Point,
>>SQL Server, Terminal server, Conference server and Exchange server. This is a
>>prototype system developed for the Department on Defence. One of its parts is
>>JFAST, that many of you may already know. I personally saw the demonstration of one
>>of JFAST versions at Palm Springs Devcon in 1999 and can say that its great
>>graphical interface improved even more. Different parts of this project collaborate
>>with each other online, and the part that plans the operations passes the data to
>>JFAST which plays different scenarios for it. Components of this project are
>>written using different languages - VB.NET, Visual FoxPro C++, SQL Server, etc. We
>>were shown the JFAST v 8.1 Beta, which is a VFP application. Further details are
>>classified.:)
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>>Day 3
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>>The very interesting announcement was made yesterday by Brian Jones at the session
>>on CFAST project (that I wrote about in yesterday's report). Brian said that the
>>development of this project was just approved for the next 13 years. Note, that
>>significant part of this project is JFAST application written in VFP. I would not
>>encourage you to read too much between the lines of this statement (something like
>>that VFP future is guaranteed for the next 13 years). This is just the fact that a
>>very big multibillion dollars project will continue to use VFP in a very important
>>application for the mission critical military purposes. This application may be
>>used also in the civil and humaniatarian aid purposes, where relocation planning of
>>the huge number of the resources is required. It was noted, that one of the big
>>advantages of using VFP in this project is its unique ability to call user-defined
>>functions from within SQL statements. So, in any case, it is something to tell
>>about to the clients or IT managers for their question "Why VFP?". Brian noted that
>>they will need VFP developers for this project, by the way.
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