The VFP team at Microsoft has officially announced that there will not be a version 10 of Visual Foxpro and that they will be supporting and maintaining version 9 until the year 2015.
First and foremost there is no cause for alarm. VFP is an extremely stable and reliable development environment that remains the premier relational database language due to both speed and power.
This announcement is something we at Tri-Tech have anticipated, as VFP is reaching the end of it's life cycle. This doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with VFP, quite the contrary.
We at Tri-Tech take great pride in our track record of staying on top of technology. The AIMsi software package has transitioned through three completely different development environments over the last 23 years. One thing we've learned from history is that this next transition will most likely not be the last.
Each product was great for it's place in time, but as technology advances, a language or environment reaches a limit in what it can do, and a new language will be better suited for future technological achievements in the programming world.
.Net (pronounced dot-net) is the new language of choice for both internet and desktop applications. Tri-Tech is well versed with these current technologies. In fact, most of active-e and the webservices for transferring the data between Active-e and AIMsi are written in .Net.
Tri-Tech's transition plan not only includes .Net as a development platform, but will also utilize more powerful backend database options.
As always, we continue to employ the latest technologies to ensure that our company can provide you with the most efficient product.
Paul Acton, EVP
Tri-Technical Systems,
