Foxpro is top notch. And I have never used it. Here is why:
- My former best friend has created a software in 1995 that manages 30% of all vendor machine ( coffee, candy bars, sandwich) in Europe.
The software uses Foxpro.
1) He tried twice to migrate to other dev tools. Never succeed.
2) His software is so good his company was in average 40% more profitable then competitors.
3) His CEO has bought 10 competitors of the same size in 20 years. Each time my friends software would replace the former. Than the financial margin would go up.
In the 90s I knew several similar cases where significant companies were run on FoxPro or Access. I don't think there are any web based tools on the market now where you could achieve the same thing with the same level of effort.
I wonder if Microsoft could just open source it now. I can't imagine they're making money from it in 2021 and this would definitely add to the community goodwill towards them, which they definitely lack.
- My former best friend has created a software in 1995 that manages 30% of all vendor machine ( coffee, candy bars, sandwich) in Europe. The software uses Foxpro.
1) He tried twice to migrate to other dev tools. Never succeed.
2) His software is so good his company was in average 40% more profitable then competitors.
3) His CEO has bought 10 competitors of the same size in 20 years. Each time my friends software would replace the former. Than the financial margin would go up.