What we see happening sometimes is that if a company has an internal IT
department and they're evaluating solutions of which ours is one, the IT
people will get onto Google and from there establish that VFP is 'dead'.
So we do lose out in those terms sometimes. But the vast majority of
companies we sell to don't ask or if they do, don't care.
One of the main objections customers have is the DBF format, and I agree
that it is getting increasingly flaky in terms of locking and file
access contention as Windows progresses. In fact a time will come when
having shared VFP data on a Linux box and using Samba may well work
better in all cases than having it on a Windows box (I know Ted(?) and
Paul and others would say that's already the case).
Having said that there is still huge scope for applications with a VFP
front end and a separate database server backend (Postgres, MSSQL et al)
--
Alan Bourke
alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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