Another company doing less with Foxpro

Just talked to a small software house.
More jobs in PHP than Foxpro. At least,
they found a replacement. :)

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John
Fri May 02 11:35:03 CDT 2008

It is a shame about Foxpro. What a great tool that MS is just dumping.
So you would recommend learning PHP and MYSQL?
Thanks,
John


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> Just talked to a small software house.
> More jobs in PHP than Foxpro. At least,
> they found a replacement. :)
>
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> @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY.
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Man-wai
Sat May 03 07:53:41 CDT 2008

> It is a shame about Foxpro. What a great tool that MS is just dumping.
> So you would recommend learning PHP and MYSQL?

Well at least that company found more customers accepting
Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP (LAMP) as solution.

That company still wants to hire me (though I am resting now).
So... yes, it's in my wish-list. :)

I knew another Foxpro shop (focused in POS, a bit bigger)
that also did a LAMP system for a restaurant (including Hylafax
to fax P.O. to suppliers). But this one is more interested in
switching to another M$ tools.

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MikeA
Mon May 05 19:19:47 CDT 2008

How long do you all think VFP programmers and the community will be around
for? Do you think Microsoft could eventually develop an OS that purposely
won't run VFP apps?

Mike


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>> It is a shame about Foxpro. What a great tool that MS is just dumping.
>> So you would recommend learning PHP and MYSQL?
>
> Well at least that company found more customers accepting
> Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP (LAMP) as solution.
>
> That company still wants to hire me (though I am resting now).
> So... yes, it's in my wish-list. :)
>
> I knew another Foxpro shop (focused in POS, a bit bigger)
> that also did a LAMP system for a restaurant (including Hylafax
> to fax P.O. to suppliers). But this one is more interested in
> switching to another M$ tools.
>
> --
> @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY.
> / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you!
> /( _ )\ (Xubuntu 7.10) Linux 2.6.25.1
> ^ ^ 20:49:01 up 1:14 1 user load average: 1.02 1.08 1.08
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Gene
Mon May 05 19:47:44 CDT 2008

"MikeA" <appell@appellsoftware.com> wrote:

>How long do you all think VFP programmers and the community will be around
>for? Do you think Microsoft could eventually develop an OS that purposely
>won't run VFP apps?

Years yet. What the size of the community will be is another
question.

They can do that now. I do not think that they will bother, or
it will be part of a bigger effort.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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