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DOT HISTORY will repeat itself
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11/10/2004 17:17:57
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro and .NET
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00950538
Message ID:
00950568
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If you want to help VFP stay alive you should go out and buy a copy of VFP7 and then a copy of VFP8 and in a few months go out and buy a copy of VFP9 :)

You are missing out on a lot of great features that are available in version above VFP6.

Don't knock it until you have tried it. .NET is simply awesome :)

Einar

>I have a well worn CD of VFP 6 which has served me gallantly for 8 years. Eight YEARS! I develop small applications for my work, my church and myself and I enjoy the power and freedom - especially because I can develop 'under the radar' of those darn DBA's and WEB server guys.
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>To get a similar environment using .NET would cost me 1000 Dollars up front just for starters - and .NET is harder to implement for a multi-user app - then I have to start buying licences for MSSQL or use JET/ACCESS as a back end - and where is my local database?
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>Go ahead and leave me behind - but...
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>... I live in Canada where $1000 is a week's pay - what about the 1000's of developers in Brazil, India or Russia where that would be 2-3 months pay - do you think they will be moving over?
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>Microsoft has had the same problem with XP - they have addressed it by selling certain non-english versions of XP at cut rate prices.
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>That just wouldn't fly with .NET so I can't see how Microsoft can sell .NET to anyone but big companies who have the cash.
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>FOXPRO and VFP have been on the way out since 1993 - It will still be on-the-way-out long after .NET has become .HISTORY
Semper ubi sub ubi.
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