Lynn: Thank-you, I think that I will be looking at your DB product. Mike
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Lynn Fredricks < lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: > > I want to write databased applications to take care of some of the > > pain-points at my current employment. And if this works > > out I'd like to extend it to the full application - which is > > your normal professional billing program. > > I'm using VFP right now and would have no reluctance to > > continue using it if it were still in development. For > > ad-hoc reporting and querying it's the best. VFP covers all > > of the bases including report writing, a built in db, SQL > > support (sort of) and I can see that with LiveCode I'm going > > to have to add external tools to fill in the gaps. Thanks for > > the responses. > > Visual Fox Pro was a great product, but I wouldn't say LiveCode falls > short. > LiveCode has to do a lot more. > > At Paradigma Software, we've had many who have come from VFP to Valentina > DB > + a flexible cross platform tool like LiveCode. On the reporting side, we > developed Valentina Reports - this also works with SQLite and Postgre (with > MySQL support coming). Fortunately Runtime has consistently nurtured > excellent relations with its third party community, and we've never had any > problems integrating either solution with LiveCode. > > And I encourage you to build a front end with LiveCode + Valentina DB (you > get can a free copy of our server from our site), populate it with a > million > records, then do the same with your aging copy of VFP - then run a few > complex queries. I think you'll find our combination of strengths will do > more than just fill the gaps ;-) > > Best regards, > > Lynn Fredricks > President > Paradigma Software > http://www.paradigmasoft.com > > Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode