jbailey268
Programmer
This is not a technical question per se but a very important one. I do not know where else I can post this question. I need just a little feedback from those who develop in Foxpro independently or in a FoxPro shop.
Bluntly put, due to the worldwide economic slowdown, I would think Foxpro to the rescue. That statement, of course, is overreaching yet the vast majority of companies I’ve searched for on the internet, who are hiring, describe duties anything and everything that’s not Foxpro. The jobs do require very expensive alternatives to VFP.
A while back there was even some who predicted a corporate dot net meltdown that could have negative ramifications because projects got overly complex and fell behind schedule and over budget. The sentiment was that .NET although a powerful tool is often a more complicated solution than the problem it was trying to solve. In my office experience, what once was four VFP programmers has been “upgraded” to 4 VB .net or c# programmers with now a 5th person being an SQL Admin expert adding a lot of additional costs and development time to the bottom line. Incidentally the backend tables range from (hundreds) to at most 1.2 million rows. There are 2 that approach the 2GB limit. This is a small to mid-sized company. And, even our President said small to mid-size companies comprise the backbone of the economy. We’re all not GM (ha ha). In an age where budgets are critical – why this trend? Why this trend to financial bloat rather than financial relief? I don’t get it. What can be done since Microsoft doesn’t push it as a small business savior?
I’m sorry this was posted here – someone will probably remove it, but before they do; feedback anyone?
Bluntly put, due to the worldwide economic slowdown, I would think Foxpro to the rescue. That statement, of course, is overreaching yet the vast majority of companies I’ve searched for on the internet, who are hiring, describe duties anything and everything that’s not Foxpro. The jobs do require very expensive alternatives to VFP.
A while back there was even some who predicted a corporate dot net meltdown that could have negative ramifications because projects got overly complex and fell behind schedule and over budget. The sentiment was that .NET although a powerful tool is often a more complicated solution than the problem it was trying to solve. In my office experience, what once was four VFP programmers has been “upgraded” to 4 VB .net or c# programmers with now a 5th person being an SQL Admin expert adding a lot of additional costs and development time to the bottom line. Incidentally the backend tables range from (hundreds) to at most 1.2 million rows. There are 2 that approach the 2GB limit. This is a small to mid-sized company. And, even our President said small to mid-size companies comprise the backbone of the economy. We’re all not GM (ha ha). In an age where budgets are critical – why this trend? Why this trend to financial bloat rather than financial relief? I don’t get it. What can be done since Microsoft doesn’t push it as a small business savior?
I’m sorry this was posted here – someone will probably remove it, but before they do; feedback anyone?