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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)

    Score3.7 out of 10
    N/AFoxPro is a programming language and DBMS formerly supported by Microsoft, now at its End of Life.N/A

    Mendix

    Score7.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Mendix is a low code platform-as-a-service offering with mobile and social extensions. Mendix was acquired by Siemens August 2018.

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    Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Mendix
    Editions & Modules
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    Free Edition
    $0
    Pro Edition
    1,250
    per month (billed annually)
    Enterprise Edition
    1,675
    per month (billed annually)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Mendix
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Mendix
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Siemens AG
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    100%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    91%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Mendix
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Visual FoxPro (Discontinued) and Mendix
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    Ratings
    Mendix
    9.0
    9 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Visual Modeling00 Ratings9.39 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
    Platform Security00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Platform User Management00 Ratings9.49 Ratings
    Reusability00 Ratings8.89 Ratings
    Platform Scalability00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Mendix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (66 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (14 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Mendix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Siemens AG
    Mendix excels in scenarios involving Business Process Automation, making it a strong choice for applications requiring workflow automation, including processes like request approvals, document management, and other business workflows.Conversely, Mendix may be less suitable for projects that demand highly customized solutions with extensive custom coding. Its primary focus on low-code development may not align well with the requirements of projects that heavily rely on intricate and specialized coding.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Treat data from files
    • Reporting
    Incentivized
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    Siemens AG
    • We're able to really easily develop different views that are very specific to a customer's needs or customer's different types of user needs. So for example, the production managers can have a certain view that's relevant to them and then certain line managers can have views that are specific to them that allow them to run different scenarios which they define. So it allows us to easily build customized apps for each different type of user.
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    Cons
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Siemens AG
    • Earlier versions lacked in UI/Ux. This is still improving.
    • Since everyone and anyone can create custom add ons (widgets), Mendix could improve their quality checks (but not as rigid as eg Apple).
    • Upgradeability used to be somewhat of an issue. Version 7 looks to be handling this better than previous versions.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    There are several easy to use and powerful features of VFP that programmers like.
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    Siemens AG
    A 10 would say I have nothing to wish for. A 9 means I haven't seen anything better.This tool really helps you in the whole creation and maintenace cycle, so from requirements to building/modeling to testing to deploying to capturing feedback.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Siemens AG
    Response times are quick and you will get updates regularly about the status of your request. Even with very technical questions they have specialists that can help you with your problems it will give you an answer or help you with a work around.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Siemens AG
    Mendix would be my preferred system all the way. The system is designed for these kinds of works. I've worked with WP and DNN but they should be used just for websites. To create an app for a business value, I would suggest Mendix. Also, the offline capabilities of Mendix have greatly improved since the deployment of Mendix 7.13.
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    Return on Investment
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Siemens AG
    • It helps to speed up application development because of its low code by the fact that it's low code. It allows professional developers to focus more on specialized application development rather than the more routine application development that business IT and super users can do for themselves with some coaching from the IT department. So it's just allowing the more specialist professional developers.net, for example, Java in our organization to focus on more complex engineering application developments.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Mendix Screenshots

    Screenshot of Agile Project Management: Collaborate. Manage. Iterate.Screenshot of Central App Management: Application Management Made Easy.Screenshot of App Store: Hundreds of building blocks to get you out of the gate.Screenshot of 1-Click Deployment: Efficient DevOps. Enabled.