Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Wed Sep 21 10:09:59 CDT 2005
FoxPro has been around for a very long time. It started out as a dBase clone but is based on the Rushmore database engine, which is much faster than Jet, and which is the reason Microsoft bought it in the first place. There are a lot of older apps out there that were originally written in FoxPro for the speed and then were maintained over the years rather than being rewritten in something else. Visual FoxPro eventually became the product it was supposed to be (the early Visual versions were simply a UI designer over a command line editor), but it seems to be as much a stepchild now as Access is becoming. It is no longer in Visual Studio and I haven't heard whether there are any plans to make it .Net compliant. I know Access won't be, at least not if you can believe Microsoft. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Johncliviger at aol.com [mailto:Johncliviger at aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:08 AM To: accessD at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] Access - FoxPro - SQL2000 Hi List Several time this year I've been asked to extract data a cash register type software and each ocassion the data is in Foxpro. Where does Foxpro fit into the database market? Access is generally accepted as the entry level db and SQL 2000 is for the heavy duty db. Is there are market for Foxpro skills, is it worth learning? or is it obsolete? Comments most welcome johnc -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com