>>What about the 1,500 VFP licenses you will need to buy for each workstation?
>Last time I checked you didnt have to purchase VFP to run a compiled VFP app on a computer.
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If you are talking about Linux desktops - which I thought you were - you have to buy a license for each machine.

>And what about the possiblity of doing this from the start? Develop a new app for a new client? You would avoid the problem of all the retro-fitting.
>Even so I think you'd still come out ahead.

Sure - but in that case, I would not use Fox.


>mmmmmm....I don't think that's going to be true all the time, and in my hypo I don't see how you think the client could hope for at best a break-even proposition. Perhaps your calcualtions are off becuase of the VFP licesing question.....

It is more than just licensing. Its all the indirect costs of switching, training, support, and increased development time to account for the fact that things work differently - and often not as well under Linux as it does under Windows - as far as Fox is concerned.