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/ What, No FoxPro?
In the review "New Leaders of the Client/Server Migration" (June), you covered Delphi, PowerBuilder, SQL Windows, and Visual Basic. I am shocked and astonished that you did not cover Visual FoxPro! I use it and fee
l that it is equal or superior to all the other mentioned tools for client/server development. What gives?
Bruce Ritter
bruce_ritter@halcyon.com
Our focus was not on general-purpose application development, but specifically on the products' capabilities for developing client/server front-end applications. For general-purpose application development, Visual FoxPro is certainly a major player, but when it comes to building client/server front-ends, it is not on the same level as the products we evaluated. The vendors, with whom we had lengthy discussions about
the focus of our review, never raised the issue of including Visual FoxPro. When we asked Borland, Powersoft, and Gupta what products they considered to be their major competitors in this area, they all mentioned Visual Basic; none mentioned Visual FoxPro. Perhaps more significant, never at any time did Microsoft representatives indicate to us that they felt Visual FoxPro should be included in this comparison. -- Mark Hettler, senior technical editor, NSTL
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What, No FoxPro?
