Alan Bourke wrote: > > > 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) >
I switched over to MySQL years ago (2005?) and have been loving that much moreso as a backend to my VFP apps. DBFs are ok, but not as portable and professionally recognized as a MySQL database would be. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ 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.
