On Monday, September 12, 2011 9:56 PM, "Allen" <pro...@gatwicksoftware.com> wrote:
I'm risking being called a shill for Servoy here, which I'm totally not, but I had some replies to your points. I'm only evaluating it as well. > I am wondering why you want an alternative to VFP. It's not dead yet 2015, yes. That might be not very far away at all depending on the size of application you have to re-engineer in a replacement technology. > despite > the marketing , lies I think " of Servoy. it's I don't think they ever claimed that you can magically convert your VFP projects with a mouse click or anything. > Anyway what makes Servoy any better than VFP. It's still an unknown as > far > as clients are concerned. Well, it's better for creating cross-platform and cloud-based applications, probably. People might not have heard of Servoy but they've heard of Javascript, Java, Apache, Hibernate and all the other parts that make it up though. > Also Ken is not on the team. He is just a marketing gimmick. > Don't get me wrong, I have not tried it and due to the costs am unlikely > to. > So I don't know what it is like for a programmer. Is it better than VFP > or > just getting caught up with the marketing. > Well, 'better than' is all subjective, isn't it? Is COBOL better than VFP ? There's a hell of a lot of COBOL out there. It's picking the right tools for the job. If I was starting out to write a multiuser application, I was only worried about Windows, I only wanted it to run on LANs, and I wanted all those third-party native controls available to me, then I absolutely wouldn't use Servoy. For creating what are effectively browser-based applications using proven OSS technology and so on I might pick Servoy, or RealBasic or something else. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com 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/1315903263.28837.140258140488...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** 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.
