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>>Not sure if the fact that eMaint is using Fox/WW indicative of anything material.
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Maybe it's an indication that the combination of Fox and Web Connection works well for Fox shops or for companies with lots of existing Fox code to webify. That's been my experience on several projects of converting Fox apps to run on the web. The fact that it works very well seems to me to be very material. :-)
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Material in terms of market dynamics? I doubt it. Too often, technical issues are somehow conflated with business/marketing issues. I don't question for one moment - the techncial effacacy of VFP/WW. But as you say - it would only be of interest to EXISTING Fox Shops.

On a related note - driving technology choices based on the implementation of a current code-base - IMO - rarely yields an optimal choice. The choice may be good enough - which is usually what will fit the bill - but it won't be optimum. The real IP value in any app is in what it does - not in how it is written. Future technology choices OTOH - should be influenced by the specific tools adopted.