VFP "allows" any backend you want right now.
My point is that wizards to facilitate developing SQL Server apps would sell VFP inside MS as a SQL Server tool - and hence integrate it more tightly into the corporate vision.
I would be very surprised if MS went out of their way to make their developer tools use a non-MS backend with the same ease as SQL Server. Just wouldn't be good strategy.
>>I think on a corporate politics level, Fox's future would be more secure if it was a vehicle for selling more SqL server licenses and if I were building stuff into VFP 10 I'd make sure it had a "USE MSDE/SQL" checkbox in Options.
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>The only problem with this is that it tends to push only an MS backend. In my agency, though we are about 75% fully MS software (most OS, MS Office, Exchange, etc.), it is a policy that *no* SQL Server will ever be used here, as a way to avoid being accused of "favoritism" (or encouraging monopolism!).
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>Thus we only allow non-MS "real" DBs - which was Sybase for many years, and now we're moving to Oracle (as Sybase's future has grown cloudy, and the product has been too buggy).
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>So, I would like the vfp10 wishlist checkbox to include other non-MS DBs somehow too, okay? (Not that I have high hopes for this, but...)
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