If you maintain a Visual FoxPro application that reads Excel files, there is a good chance you have used APPEND FROM (filename) TYPE XL8 at some point. It is clean, fast to write, and it worked reliably for years. Then one day a user upgrades to Microsoft 365, saves a spreadsheet the same way they always have, and your VFP program either silently produces an empty cursor, complains that the sheet is missing, or — worst of all — crashes the entire session outright.
Tags: Software Obsolescence | accounting systems | ERP S, ERP systems, Sage Pro ERP, Visual FoxPro, VFP, FoxPro, Legacy FoxPro
Accountmate ERP system has been around for many years and is still going strong as a unified, source code based, MS SQL back end, enterprise resource planning system which can be customized at a business logic level or used out of the box as is.
One of the latest improvements on this product is the addition of native configurator modules for sales orders and manufacturing. In some cases, these modules will provide enough manufacturing capabilities that additional manufacturing modules are not needed.
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