Ted Roche wrote: > Flame war to keep us warm today: > > >From Ed Foster's Gripeline: > > "One long-time reader -- by no means a Microsoft apologist -- recently > crystallized the issue this way in pondering Windows security > concerns. "My staff and I talk about this a lot, because we are > spending so much time updating and fighting the security battle," the > reader wrote. "But I have to tell you, as a Linux user on the side > myself, you could not make me move our users to Linux. The > applications simply are not there. And on the developer side, I am > immersing myself in C#, Visual Studio, and SQL 2005 now into the > summer, preparing to rewrite all my apps and move them in that > direction from Visual FoxPro. There is nothing, and I mean that > honestly, nothing in the Linux world that can match the rich GUI and > feature interface of these tools, no matter what the downsides, of > which there are plenty as well. But on balance, my decision has been > made." > I thought that's why Ed and Paul are developing Dabo....because there's nothing as rich GUI (development-wise) on the Linux side!!!!
> http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2007/6/5/03235/96551 > > Compare and contrast with: > > http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm > > Note the graph below the the table. I think the authors of Tiobe miss > a great opportunity to do a little math: what do the slopes of those > curves (smoothed out, obviously) look like? Who's rising? Who's > falling? And by what magnitude. There's the news! > > Lots of red arrows for Foxpro! -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com "Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!" _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
