by rg400005 » Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:42 am
Hi Don,
once upon a time, I have been told, VFP will not be supported by MS anymore....
So I had to rethink my develop struct... ( backoffce banking apps, and some desktop apps for sport backoffice).
- Yes Online everywhere in a browser ,... -
I started with J2EE and other nice things like Omnis Studio, Servoy,....PHP,....
They are very powerful but... : will it get payed...
In 2012 I went back to VFP and Promatrix. And Im still very happy.
And I learned : not anything must be done online in a browser
What I ended with (maybe only fit for me...)
I have a fat backend ( my VFP App), and a cheap frontend. The only thing the frontend can do is displaying data in a browser....I have done it with PHP ( Drupal, Open Atrium), AVFP and ended up with J2EE and OpenCms - so I dont forget my J2EE roots.
Maybe all your apps can work on one central database server with a fixed IP. And keep your VFP-Database even only as a chaching engine. Also makes the development easier.
Today everyhing is cloud and SAS.
But even the hendhelds are now thinking of going back to some native part of the app. A very long time ago I worked with mainframes.
The data is still the same, only the style of the frontend has changed...
Some ideas of somebody who is now 30 years in the it-bus, and since 2002 in the automotive bus.
Rainer