Delphi vs. Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Delphi
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
A RAD environment for developing native cross-platform applications using visual design tools and integrated toolchains for independent developers and enterprise development teams.N/A
Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
FoxPro is a programming language and DBMS formerly supported by Microsoft, now at its End of Life.N/A
Pricing
DelphiVisual FoxPro (Discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DelphiVisual FoxPro (Discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
DelphiVisual FoxPro (Discontinued)
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User Ratings
DelphiVisual FoxPro (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
DelphiVisual FoxPro (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Idera, Inc.
Building desktop applications for Windows is the best, despite unknown, solution. But for creating web applications or native apps for mobile, I think there are better solutions. Embarcadero releases are aligned with Windows versions, so for developing Windows desktop apps, with the touch and feel of the operation system is as good as can be Microsoft tools.
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Discontinued Products
Legacy applications already on VFP are a good candidate. If you plan to move to iOS and Android apps, VFP is not for you. Also, in future access to VFP programmers may be limited. You could use VFP as a powerful database tool. I know of many programmers who love to exploit the features of VFP to create easy to use applications.
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Pros
Idera, Inc.
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Discontinued Products
  • Treat data from files
  • Reporting
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Cons
Idera, Inc.
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Discontinued Products
  • Microsoft stopped selling this and stopped supporting it in 2014. It still works on Windows 10, but if you have a problem, you are on your own.
  • The look and feel of screens and displayed text is getting a little dated.
  • It's really designed for desktop/server environments rather than the cloud.
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Usability
Idera, Inc.
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Discontinued Products
There are several easy to use and powerful features of VFP that programmers like.
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Support Rating
Idera, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
Although MS has discontinued support of VFP there is a good community of programmers that are available for help. In fact we have several programmers at Apptread that are skilled not only in VFP but also .NET so that if there is a need to migrate some parts of applications to .NET , it is easy for us to do that.
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Alternatives Considered
Idera, Inc.
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Discontinued Products
We are only using FoxPro because it is the only way to add custom plugins into the software we use to manage our stock. FoxPro is a semi-oriented object language and should clearly not be compared with recent technologies.
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Return on Investment
Idera, Inc.
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Discontinued Products
  • Positive impact is that the value of FoxPro applications has continued to increase over the years, so we are in high demand for our services.
  • Negative impact is that sometimes you have difficult to support scenarios where you might have to spend many hours to just keep something functional.
  • A negative impact is that this language is taught in very few places, either in schools, or private learning centers.
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