John, I would take a good look at PostgreSQL, our company in in the process of migrating from old foxpro apps to a PostgreSQL platform. VFP is very much at the end of it's rope, Data corruption is a nightmare, and security is not even thought about. do yourself a BIG favor and look at open standards based software, that is well written. I have had limited success running VFP apps in wine mostly GUI problems, that most likely stem from the fact that foxpro was not a Windows app to start with. wait windows are a constant source of trouble in Wine. I also have ran a VFP app in wine and shared it with samba, database locking is sometimes troublesome when accessing from a remote station. I hope this helps Sam Fourman Jr. On 1/25/07, Matthew Reed <matty@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Microsoft has made it quite clear that you can't run VFP applications on non-Windows operating systems. They have in the past, and probably would not hesitate in the future, to sue people that do so. Also, Visual FoxPro is dead and is at the end of it's life cycle. Don't waste your time learning it. The same most likely applies to Access and VB as far as running it on non-Windows OS. dBase is antiquated, and isn't Paradox many years out of production also? There do not seem to be any good database app development tools that you can (legally) run on Wine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R. Sowden" <jsowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:19 PM Subject: Running Windows Database Applications > As it seems that we will be a year or so away from database application > programs for linux like there are for windows (Foxpro, Paradox, dBASE, > Access, Visual Basic, etc.), I am attempting to use windows as a > development > system (on a separate computer) and they copying the application to a > linux > computer (suse 9.3 to 10.1) to see if it will run under wine. > > It seems that the testing that has been done on the above type of products > are > only whether the original program will run to create programs, not whether > the compiled program will run under wine. > > Does anyone have any experience/comments re: this issue? > > -- > John R. Sowden > AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. > Residential & Commercial Alarm Service > UL Listed Central Station > Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 > mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > www.americansentry.net > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
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