Thread: FoxPro Vs. PostgreSQL

Hello all ,

I am a OpenSource S/W developer and my clients are from remote part of
Himachal Pradesh India.
I am providing my clients,
software
Build on PostgreSQL 7.3.x  as backed
and yes , they (clients) ought to  save a lot while using my software as
it runs on Linux
But theirs one Prick Our Competitor he is providing solution in what else
FoxPro + Win98
and this competitor  justifies his software as Superior because  some of
the Indian local banks use this
clumsy set of tool to manage their bureaucratic  banking work system.

What I want is some support from this good  community  to give me some
1. Tips
2. Links
3. Advise
for FoxPro and its limits (As could be told to a layman)
as how to crush my competitor for M$ tools,
Its time to prove The M$  Guys that they have $$$$$ Power and we the GNU
people have a
social perspective of doing work.

Would be greatefull for all your Comments / Bashing and yes Support


Please..........................


To Add More :
My Clients are Agriculture Banks and cannot afford the M$ tools. and yes
all the Win98 installation on their computers are
pirated.

Regards,
V Kashyap

> What I want is some support from this good  community  to give me some
> 1. Tips
> 2. Links
> 3. Advise
> for FoxPro and its limits (As could be told to a layman) as how to
> crush my competitor for M$ tools,
> Its time to prove The M$  Guys that they have $$$$$ Power and we the
> GNU people have a
> social perspective of doing work.
>

This may be better posted on a Pg advocacy list, but anyway...

Problems with FoxPro:
1. It corrupts itself frequently.  Table indexes, database indexes,
memory files, all tend to get corrupted.
2. Stupid, arbitrary limits on things like string lengths.
3. It's an ancient, dying system that few people know very well.

The first reason will probably be the most important to your customers.
  People don't like having to call the computer guy every week or two
when an index gets currupted.

Good luck,
Jeremy

You should check in on the OpenOffice.org website discussion group.
There are a great deal of people that follow the politics of M$ there,
especially global trends. They would like to keep to the topic,
OpenOffice but the topics they cover are trends with Linux that affect
many applications including PostgreSQL.

One particularly interesting gentleman is San Francisco attorney
Christian Einfeldt (einfeldt@earthlink.com). He seems to have the inside
scoop on many things relating to computing trends and politics in the IT
industry.

I am sure you can find the amunition that you need there to persuade
clients that M$ is a marketing machine that also does software as
opposed to OpenSource which is purely a software driven movement.

Good luck.

Kent N


On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 10:18, Sai Hertz And Control Systems wrote:
> Hello all ,
>
> I am a OpenSource S/W developer and my clients are from remote part of
> Himachal Pradesh India.
> I am providing my clients,
> software
> Build on PostgreSQL 7.3.x  as backed
> and yes , they (clients) ought to  save a lot while using my software as
> it runs on Linux
> But theirs one Prick Our Competitor he is providing solution in what else
> FoxPro + Win98
> and this competitor  justifies his software as Superior because  some of
> the Indian local banks use this
> clumsy set of tool to manage their bureaucratic  banking work system.
>
> What I want is some support from this good  community  to give me some
> 1. Tips
> 2. Links
> 3. Advise
> for FoxPro and its limits (As could be told to a layman)
> as how to crush my competitor for M$ tools,
> Its time to prove The M$  Guys that they have $$$$$ Power and we the GNU
> people have a
> social perspective of doing work.
>
> Would be greatefull for all your Comments / Bashing and yes Support
>
>
> Please..........................
>
>
> To Add More :
> My Clients are Agriculture Banks and cannot afford the M$ tools. and yes
> all the Win98 installation on their computers are
> pirated.
>
> Regards,
> V Kashyap
>
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