Malcolm Greene <> wrote this on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:02 PM:
> As for my own desktop based software products (marketed mainly to
> Fortune 2000 firms), if I had to use MSDE or SQL Server Express as my
> backend, I would probably lose 90+% of my customer base. At this
> point in time, I would probably lose a similar percentage of
> customers if I required a fully serviced pack .NET 1.1 (or upcoming
> .NET 2.0) CLR in order to run my software.
Why would a Fortune 2000 client drop your services if you switched out of
VFP for data into a more mainstream product {Oracle, DB2, Sql Server,
Sybase, MySQL, Postgress}?
Stephen Russell
S.R. & Associates
Memphis, TN 38115
901.246-0159
http://spaces.msn.com/members/srussell/
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