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Hello friends,

We are facing a unique opportunity. The established standard server for professional DBF applications is expensive, hard to license, and yet countless systems worldwide still rely on DBF. These businesses urgently need a successor – and Harbour, together with FiveWin, is perfectly positioned to provide it.

What’s missing? A solid admin interface, a flexible microservice layer, and modern web service integration. Harbour delivers exactly that: open-source, lightweight, and with the power to integrate AI and new technologies without breaking legacy systems.

And now there is a real game changer: with ChatGPT-5, Harbour and FiveWin receive outstanding support. Through #pragma BEGINDUMP, C functions can easily be embedded – and with AI assistance, every experienced Clipper-head can extend applications in ways that no other Clipper successor can.

SQL is not a real alternative for many companies – database conversions are costly, risky, and disruptive. With Harbour, we can preserve existing DBF structures, modernize step by step, and move applications into the web era safely and efficiently.

This is an open goal. A huge market is waiting – and because our community embraces AI-assisted development (unlike many other Clipper-derivative forums), we have the chance to take the lead and set the standard for the next decade.

Best regards,

Otto

Otto .. no where is anyone talking about database encryption and almost everyone is talking about database hacking and stealing business data from major corporations .. and STILL no one is talking about Corporate database encryption .. I use MS Access, MS Sql Server and DBF and for ALL sensitive data ( data encryption is a must ) .. names, addresses, phone numbers, bank account ID's are all subject to be stolen .. every day you hear of another major organisation that has had a major Database breech .. It is incumbent on us ( the developers ) to start working with our corporations and our clients to push the privacy of encrypting their data files ... make it hard for the cyber criminals to read any data that is stolen .. protecting the client information is our business ..