Many of the current FoxPro deployments are probably well hidden as packaged apps. The top-rated, most advanced (and complicated ) genealogy database software application for many years is a FoxPro app. The one I use (#2 in most ratings) runs on top of MS Access. Neither one really lets the user know that - you have to read the fine print (or have a need to repair the data at table level, as I once did).
Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing & IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe DeSouza Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 6:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: History of AR System ** Interesting.. I wasn't aware FoxPro was still around. I thought it might have become one of those dead products.. I just googled though and it looks like its very much around (v9.0 now). You just do not hear too many people still using it.. Joe ________________________________ From: "Barber, David" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 6:40:06 AM Subject: Re: History of AR System ** Prior to working on the AR System I was a FoxPro developer, loved the VFP developments (first version was v3.0), and the way they developed a reasonably sensible object model into the whole dBase system. Microsoft did their typical work and eventually killed off VFP after making lousy utilisation of the excellent database engine (why was Access always slower than VFP for similar queries?). Its only recently (last few days!) that I've done some work on v4.5.2, having initially done my training on v5. Its definitely come one helluva long way over the years! Dave -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Joe DeSouza Sent: 30 June 2009 16:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: History of AR System ** And I think that was about the time when I first saw Visual FoxPro (I think 2.5) and I was like wow - there is no way it can get better than this haha! This is like awesome! And 1.4 MB of data on a single floppy disk! Get outta here that can't be true! And when I first held one I was like how can something so small as this hold that much data! Fast forward to this day and age.. I have here besides me a Micro SD card of 2 GB capacity that I just took out of my camera! Which nearly isn't even the highest capacity for that size even! Joe ________________________________ From: "Pitcher, Amelia" <[email protected]> _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
