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>People just do not get it! Everyone should use Oracle for everything they do! The common man should have it to maintain information like his CD collection. Then Larry Ellison would be happy.
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>I guess we cannot make “everyone” happy like both Bill Gates and Larry Ellison.
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>Well, some of us know there is no one solution for everything. But there are some who have no clue. We just happen to have Larry Ellison in our "backyard", and he hates anything to do with Microsoft and especially if it has to do with data - including VFP.
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Hi Tom. You're absolutely right. I think that all these tools have a place and function. What I have seen and experimented with iro .Net is also very interesting. But for what I do (at the moment) VFP is simply awesome. And I think that I am not alone.

I have learnt several lanaguages over the years, to one degree of proficiency or another (i.e. none well :), and VFP is certainly my favourite. But I will always try to apply the best tool for a job even it that means, as is usually the case, outsourcing part of the application.

Then there is always the issue that a great developer with an average dev tool will outperform an average developer with a great dev tool. I think --sb-- would out program all of us using an abacus :)

Regards