Hi Camil,

For all the features that you have listed as well as in your 16 exabytes table limitation, For sure you will have lots of Sales. Our company will be one of your client especially for the Table size limitation and for the Unicode support.

Good Luck and hope you make it for this promising development. I will keep an eye on this type of development.

Kind regards,
Mike


> I wrote on etecnologia a few days ago and received good news from them (new capabilities from the tablelayer64 they are building)
> I thought it might interest all vfp programmers so I will post these answers from Samuel David:
> Also I think it would be a good ideea of having a foxite topic with etecnologia's vfp.net. Just to write some ideas we have and to support them because it seems they are doing great things for our vfp app's future.
>
> "First thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback about our Work.
> I want to assure you that we are fully committed to the tableLayer, because
> it makes a lot of sense in the small workgroups you mentioned and also even
> more in Mobile Devices, because, yes we'll have Fox apps running in devices
> as Smartphones and PDAs. In fact it already run in that kind of devices.
>
> As part of our commitment to the Table Layer here are some features coming:
>
> 1. Table encryption. So now you can encrypt your tables to increase the
> security of your installations.
>
> 2. Unicode support. That is something requested by our Western Europe
> Customers.
>
> 3. More robustness for the TableLayer. Features to have better data
> integrity as Table Logs and Data Recovery.
>
> "With regards to the client / Server. Well, the capability to work over the Internet is almost there. You can create your own TableLayer and instead of writing to the disk it can write to the cloud, just by using a Web Service to update the data. We already support to create WebServices so it is really easy just to expose a few methods to Query data and to update data.
>
> Also using this same capabilities, you can expose all of your data as DataServices, that can be accessed thru REST :
> http://yourserver.com/yourDatabase/Customers/KeyOfCustomer
>
> That is something we are bringing to .NET too, that coupled with VFP ability to code against different Database Server just by switching the underlying DBC connection will make an even more compelling case for VFP, because you can code not only against VFP tables also against several Servers (SQL Server, Oracle, Postgresql, MySQL) with not change in your code. We are in fact extending the language in VFP so you can even
> CREATE MyTable (SomeField C(10), OtherField I)
> in your VFP Code
> And it will create the table in the remote server, and the same functionality is coming for lots of other Data commands as ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE and more.
>
> So I believe that with those enhancements you will have the best Sales Story for your customers, and We too!"