>I don't have an opinion yet - that is why I asked.
It seems one or two shops dominate server side VFP services. They are selling .NET and SQL add ons to VFP [and other] developers.

Simple stuff, like a VFP server (COM) raising VFP client events and multi-threading with global variables - things that could easily be included in an 'enterprise' VFP license - are denied. Why?

Because if that happened, many of us would be implementing our own server objects - we would not have to rely on the big footed .NET/ASP hybrids that [only] one or two players offer.

I am not decrying the quality of the availble products, the hard work that those shops put into delivering those projects, or their price schedules.

I am only amazed that MS and the Fox Team has refrained from something they could do very easily - give VFP developers the tools (bill us for the features) to roll their own.

Good news - If the Linux interface and [maybe the] EULA issues improve - some of the bottom feaders, like me, might get an opportunity to taste prime krill at the surface:-).

Everytime I read words sounding the shortcommings of VFP - I always suspect the writer is getting SQL or .NET commissions from MS - or has some ASP/.NET add on [s]he is trying to sell - which is okay - but it's a BS way of selling 3rd party services or the next great .NET or C# how-to manual! Fear tactics turn me off. Selling technology with an inuendo laced pitch against other technologies renders any dialog a waste of time.

VFP is here - it will stay a while - and MS is reaping a benefit. Any opion beyond or outside those facts, even if it just to sell .NET or COM/SQL billables is not much more than evangelicals in a trailer park telling the residents that the devil lives in a van down by the river. It's absurd - not productive - and confusing. It don't do no one no good:-)

I guess a rant off is in order - so;
SET RANT OFF :-0

Thurber

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>>>What do you mean by this?
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>>What do you think I mean?
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