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Powerbuilder v VFP5 - £ v $
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26/03/1998 16:02:22
 
 
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26/03/1998 14:27:24
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Client/server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00087251
Message ID:
00087478
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28
>We have PB, VB, C..., Delphi, Paradox, VFP, FPW, etc. Depends upon customer / application as to which to use. PB is definitely 'Fortune 1000' based software as to its deployment. VFP is definitely PC - based, with current version 5.0 only available for the MS 32 bit windows platforms ( previous versions of Fox have run on Apple Mac and some versions of Unix. Economics comes into play as to "supply and demand" of the trained programmer pool, this translates into the remuneration for what is in demand. Choice is yours as to which to pursue. Most of the VFP developers with whom I have come incontact are independant, work for a small development company, or work in a "department" of a large organization -- rarely a corporate Information Systems employee.

I suppose you've hit the nail on the head there, in that if i want to expand my horizon beyond VFP, and maybe even PC pbased systems in general i might not get the opportunities for growth or flexibility that would exist in a smaller dev. company. I think i would rather keep moving towards commercial dev. than working inhouse for a bank or whatever. A good commercial app, which PB seems poorly suited to due to cost, has the potential to see you thru better times than working for some faceless bank, but i still wouldnt mind some capital to get started !!

Regards
Malcolm
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