Database Programming

[Anthony_Barker]

> But all in all, vfp and python have very distinctive strengths and
> weaknesses.
> Python plain better for web stuff and vfp way cleaner for data-driven admin
> win32 UIs.
> 
> Unless you prefer java (no experience there),  python is REALLY the way to
> go for
> the http production (the portal thing). It is platform-independant. A
> critical asset.
> 
> Because vfp is proprietary stuff and python syntax just plain great, we'd
> love to transfer
> the whole admin stuff to python-only, pyqt look promising. But this is still
> unrealistic to-day.
> We are still significantly more productive in vfp when building traditionnal
> 2-tiers apps.
> Possibly in a couple of years.

Two options you might want to look at are

python in delphi 
http://www.atug.com/andypatterns/pythonDelphiTalk.htm

There is also talk of writing a scripts to parse out a delphi app
and dump it into xrc (wxPython xml)


GNUe has developed some db tools (reporting - forms etc)
http://www.gnuenterprise.org/project/what.php

> 
> These are personal opinions only...
> 
ditto