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New VFP User Group in Iraq

Jun 18

Posted by Tod McKenna in In The News

The FoxPro community has always been diverse and vibrant, with user groups spread out all over the world. Although VFP9 is the last installment we’ll get from Microsoft, I’m happy to see and re-report that a new group has been created: Iraqi Visual FoxPro Programmers Group (Iraqi.vfppg)

You can read the original announcement here on Foxite.

Founder Ammar Hadi writes:

It was my dream to build this group since about more than 4 years ago, and at that time I send an e-mail to one of the Iraqi Foxers who is a member in foxite too (we never met) and told him that I will work on creating a foxpro group in Iraq. He show his readiness to help me on that. But at that time, I was totally engaged in my Medical study to get the certificate of Neurosurgical Profession. Now it is about a year and a half since I finished my study and training and got the certificate to work as a professional neurosurgeon (with very good marks ;-D ….. ). Now I can say that I got some more time to make my dream come true.

I wish Ammar the very best!

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FoxPro a Big Hit in China

Mar 29

Posted by Tod McKenna in In The News

Did you know that “a survey showed that Microsoft’s FoxPro database application accounted for 65% of database installations in
China, yet Microsoft had not sold a single legal copy in the country.” (source)

This blows me a way. I know pirating is bad in China but this is just unbelievable. Imagine if 10% of those installs were legal. Microsoft would have additional pressure to carry on the language (and would have plenty of additional revenue as well).

Anyway, that article is a great read for anyone interested. Now I can blame Bill AND China for VFP’s fate.

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FoxPro: A tool for developing countries

May 3

Posted by Tod McKenna in In The News

Wilson Ng, of Wired Desktop has made an interesting observation about VFP. He was reviewing the MasFoxPro site (which is what the meat of his article is about) and noticed that most people who have signed the petition are from ‘developing’ countries. (As a side note: I don’t like the term ‘developing’, but anyway.)

The people who signed come from about 80different countries worldwide. It is especially noticeable that the tool is really popular in developing countries. If you note, there were only 341 programmers from the United States, 90 from Germany and 42 from United Kingdom who signed. In contrast, 479 developers from Russia, 280 from China, 294 from Argentina, 150 from Brazil, 156 from Peru and 109 from Ukraine signed petition.

I’ve always known VFP to have a strong international presence. But where are all the US developers? Where are their signatures?

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