Jess
The only advantage of the previous system is that all reports were done using Crystal reports.
It looks like someone may have some addition billings to convert them Crystal Reports<s>


>Terry,
>Yes. It's the speed of manipulating data that impresses the users. One of the biggest hospital here uses the former and it requires them to have P4 workstations but the performance have no significant improvement as compare to ours which will run using AMD ATHLON 350 MGHZ. Also, our system is Grid oriented and so thanks for VFPs containership capabilities. The only advantage of the previous system is that all reports were done using Crystal reports.
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>>Jess,
>>It's amazing to hear people say those things. For Desktop, VFP forms and controls offer a lot more than VB. For data, VFP hands down. Many of these VB/SQL systems are content publishing services. Thanks for submitting the Hospital conversion from VB/SQL to VFP/SQL.
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>>An Oil services company here in Houston replaced their VB/Access service with VFP. But, because the staff was used to the VB interface, the contractor had to make the VFP form look like the VB form. Of course the VFP form could react more seamlessly, so the client allowed the excess VB buttons to be removed. What amazed the user most was the speed! It looked like the old VB form, but ran like a fox<s>.
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>>>That's just their impression but in reality it's not. Two VB/SQL Server hospital system here were replaced with VFP/SQLServer. My advice is that add in your arsenal tools like C#.Net and combine it with VFP.
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>>>>Most ppl think VB is much more reliable langage in HK. Now, dephli, powerbuilder, the decline are similar with VFP.
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>>>>Too Bad
>>>>From Agnes