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>I'm not sure why the negative attitude ("that's bizarre"). As Fox developers, we have to be responsive to our customer's needs, and within the next 12 months, I bet the majority of the folks on the UT will be asked about Fox and Linux.
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>You can't hide your head in the sand. You needed to know about Novell in the early 90s (and I bet a fair number of you still do). You have to connect to Exchange and Lotus Notes. You need to know about .NET and SQL Server and the WinAPI now. You need to know about generating Adobe PDFs and integrating with Crystal Reports. And you will need to know something about Linux or you're going to be left behind, and your customers are going to go to another Fox developer who has the foresight to expand the reach of their learning.
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>Fox is Everywhere!
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>Whil

I agree completely. Being responsive to your customer's needs is what keeps us in business. Started in the early 80s and by 1995 I was writing apps in Foxpro 2.6 for SCO Unix (which wasn't difficult as the codebase was 80% similar I believe - in fact I developed on a pc using 2.6 for DOS and compiled my code on the Unix server in the Unix version so the apps could run on either platform using compiler directives for DOS and Unix). We had 26 SCO Unix (pc) servers and a single 75,000.00 communications server running Novell. As the network changed, so did my work. I became the network manager of a WAN running everthing from Novell (15 servers), MSFT NT (too many to count) servers, SCO Servers (many), and eventually Windows 2000 servers - all on the same backbone and in the same domain. My development switched to VFP also with dbfs or SQL or Advanced backends. If I didn't switch with the customer, I would be out of a job. It also keeps it interesting! Just when I think I've got it all figured out and I am 'comfortable' I am forced to move on to 'new ground' and spend my nights and weekends learning. Then after time with the 'new stuff' I typically have to go back and maintain the '0ld stuff' and pull out the books, get on the UT, or do whatever it takes to refresh my memory! While it gets more difficult with age to remember everything, it is still interesting!

Tracy