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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

    Sencha

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASencha is a mobile application development platform acquired by IDERA in 2017.N/A
    Pricing
    Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Sencha
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Sencha
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Sencha
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
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    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)Sencha
    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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    Idera, Inc.
    It's great to develop business applications. Previously, we tried different technologies but we find it the most suitable for us. We also deploy a generic backend so we don't need to install anything new to implement new applications. This helps us to develop very fast and with very low effort.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Treat data from files
    • Reporting
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    Idera, Inc.
    • It's a complete solution that has a vast array of pre built components, charts and a data-grid based solution.
    • Security comes out of the box.
    • It's mobile and tablet ready.
    • It has a lot of support from the community so solutions are easily available
    • You can add your own flavor via theme customizations and built in component extension.
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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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    Idera, Inc.
    • More default themes
    • Biggest community
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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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    Idera, Inc.
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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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    Idera, Inc.
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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.
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    Idera, Inc.
    Each of the above platforms offer a specific solution. Sencha provides a complete solution that is a library of components as well as a framework to modularize your application so that it's better manageable. Once you get over the learning curve of the whole technology it's a breeze to implement new functionality within the application. We have an aggressive client who comes to us every other day with some new requirement, and sencha has been able to answer all of those without issues.
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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.
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    Idera, Inc.
    • Excellent applications
    • Very good performance
    • Not very used, and developers don't like it at the beginning
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