On Dec 7, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Dan Covill wrote:
> My former partner (I'm retired) and his current partner bought Servoy as
> a path to migration from VFP. They've been working on the conversion
> for over 2 years now, and IMO they're a long ways from anything releasable.
>
> Except for some website content (and Ken Levy) I just don't see anything
> very FoxPro-ish about it. It doesn't use any of the VFP language -
> programming is all in Java. It doesn't use the VFP UI, but it doesn't
> use any of the various screen builders from .NET or the Java world
> either - my friend says it's Servoy's own. The only concrete help for a
> VFP app is that you can access your existing DBFs thru JDBC, but you can
> do that with plain Java, or .NET.
(Thought I sent something along these lines before, but I don't see it
in the list)
Servoy had a big presence at FoxForward about 4 years ago, and they
were explicitly positioning it as a migration for Fox apps. Several of us asked
questions along the lines of "what does this have to do with VFP?", but the
only answers we got was a bunch of evasive marketing-speak. They didn't impress
me as a company I would like to do business with; they seemed all too eager to
grab your money.
-- Ed Leafe
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