Visual FoxPro Technology Survey Results

Macrosoft conducted an industry best practices survey during March 2021. 366 individuals participated in the 21-question on-line survey.  Based on the broad participation it is believed that the results are highly accurate and represent a significant portion of the industry.

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Survey results show an industry in flux, with sharp opinion differences concerning the role of VFP applications in the present technology world.

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• 69% of respondents indicate their application is used externally by clients or by both internal and external clients with only 31% indicating the application is used entirely in house.  It is clear VFP is still being widely used by many clients in all industries.

• About half of participants identified significant application risk in four areas:
  • Incompatibility with operating system.
  • System breaking for users.
  • Being an unsupported platform.
  • Security of the system.

• “Being able to work in the cloud”, was rated by 61% of respondents as a most or somewhat important factor driving the probability of an application migration.

• 21% of companies using a VFP application have migrated the data out of the FoxPro database. Likely precipitated by security concerns associated with protecting the VFP system’s underlying data.

• 15% of companies that began a migration abandoned the process before completion. It is a major undertaking that takes excellent knowhow and best practices with incremental development resources.

• Survey participants were asked what their ideal target development platform is for a new migrated application. Roughly a third each indicated:
  • 31% Java
  • 28% Open-Source
  • 27% Microsoft .NET

Macrosoft is available to provide an industry expert who can present these results as requested to industry user groups.

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Direct Questions about this survey and request for speaking engagements to

John Kullmann
VP, Technical Solutions
Macrosoft, Inc
[email protected]