>A friend of mine asked me this: Wich is more powerfull, complete, easy to use,.... CA-Visual Objects or Visual Foxpro?


I just looked at the description of VO on the site of Computer Associate
http://www.cavo.com/

Version 2.5 was released on may 1999 (Adobe document giving explanations about the free trial)

Version 2.7 can be pre-ordered. But when will it be ready?

So it took them close to 5 years to get from version 2.5 to perhaps version 2.7.
To me that does'nt look good.

A fellow consultant played with version 1 for a while. He showed us what he was able to do with it. At that time it was the worst package I've seen compared to many development environments. Patches were released almost bi-weekly. Generated EXE were so slooooooow.

No doubt that this was improved but still they're only at version 2.6

Before going to VO's site I was sure I heard that CA told that they stopped improving VO. My mistake but it does'nt look like the package is in their top priority list.

When it was released VO looked very promising. A lot of cool things and 100% compatible - at least it was supposed to be - with Clipper code.

In the end it really depends on the needs of your friend. If he badly needs to upgrade clipper code and does'nt want to re-write it all then perhaps VO is a good choice. That's the only situation where I'd recommend VO.

To me there's no match between VFP and VO. VFP'S a clear winner.

But my opinion is biased. Because of what I saw of VO's version 1 and what I see from the VFP version I'm working with right now. So why don't you or your friend download the free trial and do a thorough comparison between the two products.

If you decide to do that comparison let us know how it turns out.