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A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application Developers in Southern California
January 1997
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Microsoft Position Paper
Choosing the Appropriate Database Development Tool
(Ed. Note: The following article is only a summary and, since
I’m
a FP developer, “weighted” at that. You can find the article in its entirety on
http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/Iibrary/
or visit the LA Fox Website (at
http://www.mesllc.com/Iafox.html)
to
retreive
the full TXT file. If you don’t have Internet access, you
can
also obtain the file by writing me at 72723,3422 on CompuServe.)
After reading this paper in its entirety (40+ pages), I came away with a renewed feeling of comfort with MS. In the past, MS was atways ready to distribute performance and design advantages of
FoxPro dBase
vs
Paradox
(remember that one?) vs
DataEase FoxPro
vs
any other product on the market
except,
that is, for other MS products. This paper represents, at least
for
me, a vast departure from previous MS stances in that MS is finally willing to compare their own products. In this paper, authored by Robert Green (Product Manager for Desktop Databases at Microsoft), MS offers product overviews of
Visual FoxPro, Access 97, Visual Basic,
and
SQL Server.
Brief
mentions
are also made of
Visual
C++ and
Visual J++.
Is this just another attempt by MS to show they’re “behind the
[FoxPro]
product”? I don’t think so. Although there are any number of valid hypotheses at this time, I tend to think MS is preparing us for the next major step in database system development, namely the much-touted
Developer’s Studio,
where there will be a convergence of the aforementioned Visual Tools.
You, as a MS developer, really owe itto yourself to obtain a copy of this paper and give it a careful read. You’ll be able to distill any number of useful facts from it
The following are excerpts from the position paper:
Microsoft® Solution Providers and management information systems (MIS) developers often ask the question: “Which Microsoft tool should I use to build this database solution?” In most situations, virtually all of the Microsoft tools
can
be used
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At LA Fox
january 20,
1997,
7:30
PM
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ken Levy. Wnat Detter way to start off the New Year than with Ken? This is going to be a “must see” event with Ken promising to deliver
“
Instead of choosing one topic, we’ll have several and mix it all into one
fun
night of stuff
February 17, 1997, 7:30 PM
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Dennis
Topo, Citrix.
Dennis is Southern California Regional Sales for Citrix Corporation and will be speaking on WinFrame. WinFrame multi-user application server software is an authorized extension to Windows NT Server under license from Microsoft. WinFrame helps organizations deploy Windows applications quickly, easily and cost- effectively, while maximizing return on technology investment WinFrame extends the reach of enterprise applications to users over dial-up, LAN, WAN, Intranet and Internet connections, regardless of client hardware, operating system or available bandwidth.
Product Description
: Citrix WinFrame is the first complete Telecomputing platform for enterprise application deployment based on Microsoft Windows NT. WinFrame allows mobile professionals, branch office workers and telecommuters to access 16 and 32 bit Windows applications at LAN speeds over dial-up, WAN, ISDN and Internet connections.
March 17, 1997, 7:30 PM
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John Miller. John is a Visual FoxPro developer, author, trainer and speaker. He is the owner of Perpetual Data Systems, where he architects solutions that utilize VFP in traditional, Intranet, Internet and Client-Server applications. He conducts training seminars on Visual FoxPro for Application Developers Training Company. He is the author of several articles on Visual FoxPro for Databased Advisor and
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In this issue
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Out and About
by Barry R. Lee
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The January meeting of LA Fox will be held on Jan. 20,1997, at 7:30 PM at our regular meeting place (the Torrance Airport, 3301 Airport Drive, in Torrance). For details on how to get there, see the map on the back page.
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