I just had a chance to work on an amazing project during my last assignment. It was an application to manage large datacenter, manage datacenter onsite as well as off site. We always think VFP as a good tool for developing commercial applications, but when I joined the Project with Mr. Alan North of Norlinx Inc., North Carolina, USA, I was just amazed by the boundless possibilities with VFP. Yes, the entire application to manage large datacenters was developed in VFP, and it supported multiple backends, VFP local database, SQL server and Oracle, all of them on a single application, with the feature of changing the backend on a click of a mouse. It was one of the best projects I have ever worked on in my life. I had a chance to write the entire Oracle backend part of it and manage the entire product for a period of 9 months. Even now when I run this product on my laptop I feel proud of myself being a part of this project. The product can be reviewed and downloaded at
http://www.norlinx.com . The initial work on the product was done by Alan North the owner of the company and Doug Ringly. The entire project was more of a tight integration of VFP with Active-X control like SNMP, TCP-IP, WINNT-Security and what not...
So its not just commercial applications which VFP can handle, Web based, TCP-IP based, SNMP based, multiple backends......the possibilities are endless. Its your imagination which counts. Just imagine, integrate and implement...its all there to explore.
A nice easy question, how many applications do you know which supports multiple backends, and can change the backends on click of a mouse, just no major configuration required, and which is used by major industry players to control on an average around 1500 ISP equipments (Servers, routers, Temperature control units, Power control units and what not.....), and which can control the entire show onsite as well as offsite, and sends out critical alerts on the Data center status to your inbox or on your mobile in the form of a SMS?
Guys, all this we did on VFP, yes VFP, isnt it amazing?
