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Re: Alternatives To Foxpro
02/08/2012
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I have loved FoxPro/VFP since 1990. I still use it a little, but I have also moved on. .Net really does allow me to go further that what I could do in VFP. Not because I couldn't force VFP to do something weird (stuff like shared memory and IPC), but because it made more sense to develop in something else. I do most of my web development in PHP/MySQL now. Why? Because the support is endless, there are great frameworks, and most important my solutions can run as part of more stacks than any other platform. I still support some old Web Connection projects I was hired to build and they will run forever, but I don't need a VFP community to rise up and restore VFP and then take it into the future.

The article Thierry posted is interesting, but I can't see it being realistic for a community to take over and maintain a VFP style product. Future computing platforms just won't leave the economic case for investing that much effort into a niche product. Actually, it kind of said that in the article :) recognizing that investors wouldn't touch that model. Developers aren't going to be convinced either, not when there are so many ways to develop software already being driven by well funded companies and developer-supported organizations. The products/platforms/frameworks/whatevers we use are created to fill a market-driven need. What is the market-driven need for continuing a VFP style thingy at the same level as other technology communities support their products? That's right, the answer is there is none.


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