Cindy

While looking for staff last week we received the following reply- deletions made for obvious privacy reasons. Clearly some people do feel "pushed" to shift away from FP2.6. I do not necessarily agree with all the sentiments here but reasonably assume that this person is stating their own reality:

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John,

Hi, and thanks for the email. We are a small software development company, and have agonised long and hard about which way to go with future versions of our own software, which is fully integrated accounting software and specific applications for the xxxxx industry – xxxxxx. We originally wrote our software in Foxpro 2.6 for windows, Microsofty are now making it impossible for us to use that software language.

After much consideration and trialling, we have decided to go with Delphi/Kylix mix using Borland database tools to connect to different databases depending upon size of the customers database. We have just started developing our new suite of software in Delphi.

We did try VFP Version 7, but decided that being tied to the Microsoft platform was more than we could stomach long term. Also, the VFP is not enough like some of the other more pure OOPS type languages, so we have decided on Delphi. We are happy with this decision, but we would not have had too much trouble working with VFP except being stuck with the ... < inflammatory material removed here - JR >

As for VFP, it is a wonderful and powerful language, and one I love best. It is quicker to get things done than any other language, but the benefits reduce if you start using anything other than the VFP database. We have decided to do without the nice things in VFP for a hopefully more flexible package. The Borland stuff seems to be OK, though the “Help” is not up to VFP standard by a long way...