We had this discussion in the last french devcon. The answer was :
1°) VFP is an excellent product that runs under Win7 at least for the next ten
years. So, we have time to think about a replacement. No hurry.
2°) there are 3 parts in VFP : the database, the language and the
human-machine-interface.
a) If a VFP app is well built with views, SQL, .... it will not be
difficult
to move from VFP database to another database even outside Microsoft's world.
The idea is : before the Os, VFP will cease working (is this understandable ?),
we will have problems with safety, transactions, hot backups, customer's mind,
etc ...
b) nothing can replace the language ! VFP rocks !!
c) the 'big' and 'soon' problem is cloud computing, internet,
cross-platform
... Two ways are possible:
1) new development tools as 'Servoy' and others. it will need a lot of
works (rewrite).
2) tools as Foxincloud (http://www.foxincloud.com/) that 'add features'
to the base classes to allow your apps to run on internet, ... It needs some
work but not so much.
From my personal experience, I would add a third point : a wide part of the
world (Africa for example) is in the beginning of the computer time. They have
no sophisticated enough engineer's to start programming in .NET or ... I have
seen in Mauritania, simple VFP6 app written by self-made programmers doing
great
jobs (for example a simple BROWSE to show national poll results on TV !). In my
humble opinion, VFP is THE tool for them : you can begin very simply (Do you
understand : no start treshold ?) and go very far with the same tool working on
simple machines and being easy to learn.
my two cents ...
The Foxil
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Jean MAURICE
Grenoble - France - Europe
www.j-maurice.fr
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