Re: Database conversions on Linux?

[Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> This is the Big Enchalada; our company was born and bred on DOS for the
> past several years, and we've got the legacy in-house apps to prove it.
> Specifically, we have an immense body of software written to do database
> conversions in MS FoxPro, now ported to Visual FoxPro and running on NT
> machines.

You may wish to look at MultiPro Flagship, which is a Clipper clone with
some FoxPro compatibility add-ons. The downsides: It's a bit slower than
FoxPro, and it doesn't have a GUI. Still, much of your FoxPro stuff should
port right over. 

> select packages to try out.  What we really need is a grown-up version
> of FoxPro, basically a fast, powerful set of database manipulation
> routines and some sort of front end for controlling them.  All that
> fancy user-interface stuff and database maintainance tools would
> probably go to waste around here.  But writing all of that from scratch
> in C (or whatever) seems like it would be not only terribly tedious but
> probably reinventing the wheel as well.

You may wish to look at Empress (http://www.empress.com). They have a
decent SQL server, they have decent 4GL code generators that allow you to
access it in a way that has some similarities to Visual Foxpro, their
pricing isn't too terribly out of line, and they have supported Linux for
quite some time. 

Eric Lee Green   [EMAIL PROTECTED]          Executive Consultants
Systems Specialist               Educational Administration Solutions
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