'But would the alternatives run on Linux?' 'Is it open source?' Please people, go for what business is running. I am assuming they are your clients, haven't seen that much programming opportunity for the home user in our world. Once that you realistically look real numbers; something like Mac = 2% of the business world, Linux - 1% and Windows 97% [just guessing at the numbers but I haven't seen Linux running on the desktop in any office], the choices narrow a bit.
VFP doesn't have the code base of other legacy products. COBOL still holds those reigns with ~75% of all code in production still being in COBOL. The VB6 folks have mostly migrated to .NET with a few moving to REALBasic and some small projects still being done in VF6. With the announcement of the demise of VFP, we now fit into that legacy product. Les face it, the support date isn't the time that people stop developing, it is the date that the last version has been announced. Businesses don't typically like to start large programming projects in dead languages. Don't rely on the philosophy issues of open source, go where you are needed. Business has spoken: .NET or for those weird people like me, porting their old legacy COBOL applications to .NET. By the time that the Business world does move to Linux on the desktop, COBOL will be a memory, not code in action working on big iron, and most of the world would be asking "Should I port my .NET application to Wiziagard?" jeff fisher, MCP www.turbofish.com _______________________________________________ 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 ** 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.
