Author: Bill Arnold
Posted: 2001-05-22 at 22:57:57
Randy, somewhere along the line, the concept of a complete DBMS product
development system became synonymous with 'monolithic', where closer to the
truth is that the use of a single, integrated DBMS product development
system that can be used to create all of the different tiers that are needed
is the best approach.
The forces-that-be don't want us to think that way, maybe because there's
lots of money involved, and "churn" is what has been driving this industry
in ridiculous ways.
Bill
> Just found this at BrainBuzz:
>
> Desktop Databases around the Web
>
> The client-server world has been moving toward multi-tier architecture for
> several years. Well, most of it. Visual FoxPro developers have
> been slow to move in that direction.
>
> VFP developers have favored single-tier applications, with all of the
> programming language in one monolithic application. Heck, quite often,
> nearly all of the logic sits behind a single form. VFP is also sometimes
> used as a front-end for a SQL database.
>
> FoxTalk newsletter has an article this month by Craig Berntson. He shows
> readers how to leverage COM+ and become avant garde VFP programmers with
> multi-tier FoxPro applications.
>
> http://www.pinnaclepublishing.com/FT/FTmag.nsf/0/F3465355DA9A62C98
> 5256A48005
> 1ECE8
>
>
> Why don't they just say what they really think? For me, this is not true.
> I've been "moving toward" multi-tier architecture for years, too.
> Talk about
> an over generalization. In my opinion, we are the pioneers of nTier! I
> like to steal the phrase from Intel and say that my apps are
> "nTier Inside"
> as my layers are not always in different languages but inside VFP
> (and based
> on VFE6, I might add, the first true nTier framework for VFP).
> Nevertheless, I can still say it's nTier and I can still "break out" any
> layer at any time into COM components if there were a need. Amazingly,
> there hasn't been much need.
>
> And, why are we being singled out as the "monolithic" group anyway. What
> the @#$@#! do you call Access for crying out loud?!?!
>
> Anyway, Craig's article is excellent, regardless of BrainBuzz's
> intro to it.
>
>
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