>I need clarification on something please.
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>My department has an EIS (Executive Information System) written in FoxPro 2.6. This EIS consists of several executable files and several megabytes of data (the size of the data grows weekly).
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>We have orders to "Web-enable" this EIS. Right now it looks like the data will eventually reside on SQL-Server. And we will be using a combination of VB5 and EI4 as the browser front-end.
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>With this in mind, can we still use FoxPro 2.6 as the "data manager" or should we convert to Visual FoxPro 5 (or later)?
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>I know that I have never heard FoxPro 2.6, SQL-Server and the "Web" mentioned in the same breath.
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>Any comments and suggestions are truly welcome.
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>Thanks,
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>Dan Rhymes
IIS (internet information server) will allow you to run SQL-queries (and publish results on WEB) against any ODBC-source (including Fox2x source).
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant