OT: If I were to list what I've done with filePro & vent how I feel about filePro

[Jose Lerebours]

1. Trucking/Transportation
2. Inventory, Warehousing, Procurement
3. Sales, Job Costing
4. Retail/Wholesale
5. Import/Export (Air/Ocean)
6. Lawn & Garden
7. Auto Repair Shop
8. Printing Shop
9. Asset Management
10. AR, AP, GL, PY, BR, Financial ... (full blown accounting)

to list just a few ... I think that filePro is the easiest development 
tool out there (this is its advantage and its demise) and truly hope it 
had kept up with Technology Trends.  I preferred filePro over DB III, DB 
IV and Clipper in the late 80s and early 90s because filePro had tones 
of things others did not.

Simple things like: Browse, Lookups, @key triggers as easy as 1,2,3 ... 
no need to worry about X/Y axis when writing your code.

Based on my previous post, at 50, I am about the 4th youngest member of 
this community; that speaks volume.

Is Ken ever retiring?  If so, when?  and then what??? is filePro dead at 
that point?  Aside from Ken, who else can keep filePro alive?

If Ken is the only person keeping filePro alive, we would have to hope 
they are paying him barely enough to make ends-meat; I mean, we cannot 
allow him to retire ... Just kidding Ken, fpTech will never pay you 
enough ...

I really believe filePro should had embraced LINUX and made it its sole 
OS, drop the rest ... make filePro available and distributed with every 
copy of LINUX (if only a single user development/runtime) to lure new 
blood and enrich the community with new ideas, talent and market area.

Had it done so, I figure, it would had focused its efforts, time, money, 
R&D in one and only one structure.  After all, the entire filePro 
community knows that telnet/ssh to filePro application is part of the 
game.  Imagine how much further Ken time could had gone if he needed to 
focus only on one OS and not, oh, I don't know, 10!?!

Then again, I am no expert and God knows that the only thing I know is 
that I know nothing at all.  ;-o)


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Jose D. Lerebours
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