On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Bill Arnold < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael, > > > With all due respect, I think you've created some imaginary > > walls. Some legit perhaps, but some imaginary. > > Please understand that I'm coming from a business, not a technical point > of view. I'm sorting out the optimum way to operate as a VFP product > maker. > > At center stage is the customer, who I define as the small business > operator with a small office and a few machines. In this arena, VFP is > King because no other product dev system can match or beat it - or, fair > to say, we'd be using it. I think it's also fair to say the MS, knowing > this, needed to squish VFP because it threatens sales of their expensive > products. > ----------------------------------- yawn, any new news here or is this the newspaper we wrapped the fish in back in 2001? > > Sure, VFP can do C/S and I wouldn't dispute that. What I am arguing is > that from a business/commercial standpoint, it makes more sense to > create standalone and LAN applications for small business operators then > C/S applications for larger customers. <snip> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why would you say that? If the SW you create can scale for continued growth why would you knowingly NOT allow your customers that luxury? > > Now catch me if I'm wrong, but I thought you've said you can work with > VFP databases as well as other backend DBMS's. This being the case then > I assume you have your product packaged in such a way that it can be > distributed, installed, tested and used by any number of prospective > customers without much of your personal involvement. If so, then we're > really in the same position. If, on top of this, you also support C/S > for customers with suitable environments, I'll call that an added bonus. > I'm just arguing that C/S shouldn't be a base requirement for a > commercial VFP product for this market. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I give up Bill. Why do you have this factious line drawn? How dare you make the call the VFP customers have to live with software designs from the late 80s through the mid 90s. When others like many on this list do day in and day out. Oh yeah and then say how it's not IBM. Personally I don't care what tool(s) you use to do your craft. What I care about is that the final product will not grow without a total rewrite. It is as insane as saying when you outgrow this I have some great stuff for the mainframe that you will need. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ 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.
