VFP 2005 survey results summary

Ken Levy [MS] just posted partial of the VFP 2005 survey result summary at UT, ProFox. According to him, Visual FoxPro survey online world-wide taken by 5600+ participants (over double that took the Visual FoxPro survey in 2002 and in 2003).

51% have used Visual FoxPro over 10 years
33% are now using Visual FoxPro 9.0
75% integrate Office with Visual FoxPro apps
31% plan to use VS.NET within next 2 years
98% plan to be using Visual FoxPro within next 12 months
80% small company,    68% mid-size,   27% enterprise
71% maintaining apps, 69% new apps,   25% web apps
89% DBFs,             55% SQL Server, 22% MSDE
11% apps 1000+ users, 43% 100+,       30% under 25
26% VS.NET,           21% XML WS,     25% ASP/ASP.NET, 35% COM
20% VB6,              13% VB.NET,     12% C#,          10% Java, 8% C++

As we can see 51% of participants have been VFP developers for more than 10 years and 98% will still using VFP for next 2 years. Great! Fox community is strong!

From the survery, seem like VFP built applications are rarely used in enterprise company. It mostly caused by "un-welcome" action from IT departments. However, recently I saw many companies actually don't care is it a VFP or .NET application. They want an application that able to solve their problem, that all! So, pls don't feel dissapointed.