Raphael, It was Paul McNett who did the pioneering work on VFP. I think that the current state is unchanged to as it was a couple of years ago in that the EULA in VFP9 forbids the use of VFP on a non windows O/S. VFP6 is different and doesn't seem to have this restriction if you can live with it.
As for the actual running, paul managed to get most features up and going in conjunction with the "wine" project and for a while it was one of their top apps to convert and test out fully on Linux. See his white paper at: http://paulmcnett.com/vfp/wine/vfp-wine-whitepaper.pdf As usual the M$ guys don't want to see VFP on Linux due to purely commercial reasons and in fact at one stage threatened Whil Hentzen with legal action to stop him demonstrating it working under Linux. See the www.Hentzenwerke.com website for more details. Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rafael Copquin Sent: 06 October 2009 16:38 To: PROFOXTECH Subject: vfp9 and linux One of my clientes asked me these questions: If my company server is a Linux box, can your vfp9 application be installed in it? If the client machines also run on Linux, can just accessing the server app from an icon work? If so, which Linux dialect, or what patches should be used? The above are technical questions. What about the legal issues involved? I know that these questions were asked many times in the past, but I never really bothered considering them because up until now none of my clients had any problems with using Windows OS's. However, this particular new client has all his other applications running on Linux and they will not install a Windows operating system just to use my VFP9 app. Rafael Copquin --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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/ce46e2e6a26c4ca29c3b2fa31e7f4...@develop ** 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.
