Sponsors

We greatly value the sponsors of Southwest Fox, who help cover conference costs and help out in many other ways. There are four levels of sponsorship: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

If you are interested in becoming an exhibitor or sponsor, please download our Exhibitor and Sponsor Prospectus for detailed information.

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Platinum Sponsors: Conference Organizers

The mission of White Light Computing is to guide Information Technology investments toward success!

We work with businesses of all sizes to develop custom software solutions, integrate with other software systems, convert data from one system to another, create applications that serve vertical markets, and write add-on tools for analysis and reporting for existing software. We assist independent developers and consulting firms with database design, project management, programming, code reviews, testing, deployment, training, and one-on-one mentoring. White Light Computing also sells the popular HackCX Professional and the award-winning ViewEditor Professional, and offers a complete suite of free developer tools to help increase developer productivity. You can get more details at http://whitelightcomputing.com.

Stonefield Query, from Stonefield Software Inc., is a user-friendly data mining, business intelligence, query, and report writing tool. With its intuitive wizard driven design, Stonefield Query makes report writing a snap for even the most novice user. Elegant and persuasive reports can be created in minutes with little or no technical knowledge required. http://www.stonefieldquery.com

Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC is owned and operated by Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., a consultant and application developer specializing in database applications. Since 1988, Tamar has been working primarily with Visual FoxPro and its predecessors, FoxPro and FoxBase+. She has worked with both large and small businesses as well as non-profit organizations. Currently, the primary focus of Tomorrow's Solutions is working with and for other developers through sub-contracting and mentoring. http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com

Gold Sponsors: $1,000

Servoy is the Next Generation development and deployment platform for FoxPro ISVs, corporate organizations and developers who are looking to develop Cloud, mobile, or on-premise software applications.

After Microsoft discontinued VFP, and ended support over a year ago, many businesses adopted Servoy to successfully enhance or migrate their VFP applications. The primary reasons for this are that Servoy has many similarities to VFP, it is easy to learn for FoxPro developers, and it is considered by many as the product into which VFP should have evolved. Servoy has been evolving as a powerful cross-platform development tool over the past 10 years and it offers training, consulting, and project management to assist customers with projects, and there is an excellent expanding Servoy community similar to that of FoxPro in the 90’s.

Stop by the Servoy booth and ask for a free USB stick with software, documentation, whitepapers, tutorials, and be sure to attend our special demo-centric vendor session led by Ken Levy, former Microsoft FoxPro Product Manager. Since he left Microsoft a few years ago, he has spent the majority of his time using Servoy in his own business, and consulting with companies who have a background in VFP and who are interested in evaluating or using Servoy.

Visit http://www.servoy.com/foxpro for more info.

We are committed to providing the best dedicated magazine for FoxPro Developers worldwide. Our list of authors includes many names already familiar to you. Great articles from great developers will help you hone your skills and increase your productivity. Join FoxRockX today at our affordable rates! http://www.foxrockx.com/

Foxpert software development and consulting offers its services to single developers and Fortune 100 companies alike. Whether it's Visual FoxPro, .NET, whether it's architecture, design, security, or just getting the project done, whether it's short term or long term, we can assist you with your software development business. For more information please visit http://www.foxpert.com.

Sybase Advantage Database Server from Sybase, an SAP Company, is a full-featured, high-performance, true client/server database engine. Advantage allows FoxPro developers to develop powerful database applications with complete client/server database control. Most importantly, FoxPro developers can retain their ISAM-style data access methods while utilizing Advantage's complete SQL engine for optimized data access. Along with providing data-integrity and security, triggers, stored procedures, full-text search, replication, and more, Advantage also provides unique functionality to the FoxPro market because of its native support for DBF tables including support to DBF tables greater than 4GB and a migration path to .NET without any VFP code changes. Our new clientless access allows simple concurrent access to your DBF data through mobile devices, (i.e. Android, iPhone, Blackberry, etc) tablets, and any device that supports html calls.

Do any of these issues sound familiar? Advantage can help because of its native support for DBF data.

I love VFP but I want to use a different technology to extend my VFP application (for example, to the web or mobile devices) using my current VFP data. Advantage allows you to concurrently share your DBF data with other technologies including mobile devices, tablets, Macintosh, and others while leaving your current VFP application alone with no changes. Creating iPhone, Android, tablet, or other applications to complement your VFP application and access your data through Advantage couldn't be easier.
I have tables that are nearing or over the 2GB limit and I am forced to get creative when dealing with them. Advantage natively supports DBF tables greater than 4GB; no data conversion is necessary.
I need to increase my application's security but have reached the limits of DBF tables. Advantage provides increased security features such as encryption and hiding DBF tables on the network using your existing data.

How is it all done so easily? Stop by the Advantage booth and we will show you how or visit our website http://www.sybase.com/foxpro

FoxInCloud is a Visual FoxPro layer that enables your existing application to run on the Web, while continuing to operate as today with the very same code base.

Rather than migrate to another technology, FoxInCloud adapts your application to the web: you slightly modify less than 2% of your code, preserve its structure, business logic and data access.

FoxInCloud turns VFP user interface into standard web technologies, compatible with any browser and client platform: Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. You can use CSS, custom HTML and/or JavaScript to upgrade your app's look and feel to modern Web design.

You save years of work, avoid migration risks, and focus your learning effort on proven, open and reusable client technologies.

Sharing the same code base between LAN and Web, you can continue your evolutions and migrate users seamlessly between your LAN-based and Web-based avatars of your application.

Adapting your application with FoxInCloud is totally free and easy: you just need to download FoxInCloud Adaptation Assistant (FAA) and FoxInCloud Trial Server (FTS) from FoxInCloud site. FAA scans your code, points directly to where adaptations are needed, and performs over 60% adaptations automatically. FTS lets you test your adapted application on your localhost.

Offer your Visual FoxPro application a second life in the Cloud with FoxInCloud! http://www.foxincloud.com

DBI Technologies Inc. is a commercial software development company focused on empowering application developers with the most flexible and respected, reusable commercial software components for Scheduling and Presentation layer application design. DBI is recognized for its award winning component products and its technical support for customers working in any Microsoft or .NET and OLE compliant development environment. http://www.dbi-tech.com.

Visual Extend is the framework for Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 which has made the largest leaps forward in the last several years due to massive investments in new features and developer tools (builders). The concept of rapid application development has been extended to support Microsoft Silverlight 4.0 as a state of the art front-end for your Visual FoxPro application. Attend our free one-day workshop after Southwest Fox on October 29th and 30th and get a preview of what is available! This event is free for conference attendees and FoxRockX subscribers but you can't afford to miss it! http://www.visualextend.com/

Geeks and Gurus has been customer-driven since we started in 1999. We don't mean that in a website-appropriate, marketing-buzzword sort of way, we just mean it.

Whether we're working with you to develop software that specifically fits your business, developing a website that you can maintain on your own, or working with you to create a superlative experience for attendees and presenters at your meeting or conference; we truly consider ourselves part of your team. We want to work with you to make sure we're all successful.

Please visit the Geeks and Gurus website for more information on how we can help you with Visual FoxPro or .NET software development projects. You can also learn more about the Conferences side of our business.

BASIS International Ltd. offers development tools for database-centric business applications to the FoxPro community. From the mature object-oriented programming language, BBj® - Java made easy, to the powerful rapid application development tool, the Barista® Application Framework, BASIS is ready to support your development efforts for both native client/server applications as well as the new era of cloud and browser deployment. Transition your FoxPro application at your own pace, as others are doing. You have choices with BASIS. Move your data to BASIS technology and access your FoxPro database from your new cloud-enabled development using JDBC while developing anew with BASIS.

BBj’s easy to-learn syntax and API will feel comfortably familiar. BBj comes with a built-in database that allows SQL access as well as direct access to single records - read, write, and lock single records with a single statement. If you prefer, use BASIS’ ESQL or a standard SQL database like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server or mySQL. BASIS’ renowned platform independence provides developers with new business opportunities as does its browser deployment capability from a single code source.

Barista is an efficient GUI RAD tool that also provides code transparency and granular programmer control. A data dictionary-driven development framework and run-time engine, Barista quickly generates GUI forms and queries and the business logic for data entry, editing, deleting, sorting, and filtering of data. Barista includes a long list of built-in utilities and functionality that can both dramatically reduce development time and replace costly third party products.

BASIS has been producing development tools for business applications since 1985 with the commitment to backward compatibility, protecting decades of development effort by its partners. BASIS is a global software company...big and stable enough to be a reliable partner, yet small and flexible enough to deliver customized solutions to meet today's business challenges. Read more about BASIS at www.basis.com.

Founded in 1997 with HQ in Grand Junction, CO, New York City, NY, and in the metropolitan area of Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Alaska Software solely concentrates upon the development and improvement of Xbase++ as a technology platform. Xbase++ is a 100% Clipper compatible xbase language enriched and improved by language features, such as object-orientation and data persistence.

Alaska Software pioneered in the implementation and hands-on usage of intelligent multi-threading technology in Xbase++, especially for Line-of-Business and mission critical applications. Crucial to the corporate philosophy is the perpetuation of continuous innovation and technological headway while aiming to provide best possible continuity and protection of hitherto undertaken investments. More than one million application end-users as well as thousands of former Clipper-, dBase- and FoxPro developers rely upon Xbase++ for several years, thus having built their business success upon Xbase++. http://www.alaska-software.com/

Alpha Five Version 11 is the new application development tool that lets you build powerful and secure AJAX business database applications for the web and mobile devices 5-10 times faster than with products like Visual Studio, J2EE, and PHP.

ALPHA FIVE has embraced the HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript standard and is the ONE versatile Rapid Application Development framework for all of today's platforms: mobile, tablet, web.

Alpha Five Version 11 has a component architecture consisting of a collection of grid, form, dialog, security, GIS/data mapping, calendar, charting, video player, animation, image gallery and HTML5 Web reporting components designed to speed up the application development process.

The richness and depth of the Alpha Five Version 11 components means that for most applications, coding is not needed which in turn results in speedy development.

In situations where coding is desired, Alpha Five's RAD tools step out of the way and Alpha Five v11 comes with a complete development and debugging environment, a powerful object oriented language, full integration with the .Net framework and an extensive client and server side event model.

The ability of Alpha Five Version 11 to rapidly build and modify working applications that can be shown to clients and then progressively refined based on client input makes Alpha Five v11 the ideal tool for practicing agile development methods to create web and mobile apps that truly meet customer requirements.

Full compilation of Alpha Five v11 videos
Most of these are already available on the Alpha Five YouTube channel
Watching on YouTube offers better performance and support for iphones and ipads.

A developers perspective of Alpha Five
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Animated overview of Alpha Five v11
Summary of what's new in Alpha Five v11
Video feature peeks in the Alpha Five blog

Silver Sponsors: $750

LogicNP Software specializes in the development of developer-centric software products such as reusable controls, components and libraries for .Net, WPF, ActiveX and MFC/ATL developers. Our mission is to provide innovative, developer-friendly, robust and easy-to-use software that helps developers build the best applications that today's competitive marketplace demands. Our products are used by thousands of large corporations, multi-national companies, consultants, ISVs and professionals from all over the world working in finance, government, military, education, technology, health, insurance, consulting and more. http://www.ssware.com

Pluralsight provides high-quality training solutions for Microsoft .NET developers that can fit any schedule or budget. The revolutionary Pluralsight On-Demand! training library provides developers with instant access to a rich collection of online training courses delivered by industry authorities. See what you can learn at pluralsight.com and join the@pluralsight community on Twitter.

The Foxfire! Report Writer v8+ product line is a family of data mining tools designed for regular business users. Developers can adapt it to almost any database and add any needed features on demand, in order to fit user needs like a glove. It is the only set of report writers for the VFP environment that can operate interchangeably on both platforms. Its new interactive drag-'n-drop design tool (released May 2007) has been praised by users and usability experts alike for simplicity without sacrificing power. Micromega Systems, its developer/publisher offers Foxfire! consulting, integration, and training services. Our growth strategy is partnering, and we are currently seeking other developers who want to partner to create custom or localized versions to address special market opportunities. Go to www.foxfirereporting.com to explore how we might work together.

Room Sponsors: $500

Telerik's mission is to make software development easier and more enjoyable. Our tools for agile project management, collaboration, development and testing allow companies of all sizes to create richer, more stable and aesthetic software faster than ever before. Trusted by over 100,000 customers worldwide for our devotion to quality and customer care, Telerik helps technical and business professionals maximize their productivity and "deliver more than expected" every day. As true craftsmen, we don't believe in compromises and our goal is to only release tools that we can be proud of. http://www.telerik.com

Founded in 1984, AccountMate Software Corporation develops and markets fully modifiable business accounting software. Systems range from single user versions to those that support over hundreds of users simultaneously. The code base of AccountMate's LAN, SQL and Express accounting product lines is Visual FoxPro. Since source code is available for all modules, FoxPro developers can customize the software to meet their client requirements. Your valuable VFP knowledge would be perfectly suited to modifying AccountMate's software.

AccountMate software is available for local installation, remote installation or as SaaS. It is distributed exclusively through a worldwide channel of authorized solution providers. If you are interested in details about our accounting software system or becoming a reseller, contact Bill Bailey at AccountMate at BillB@accountmate.com or visit us at www.accountmate.com.

Bronze Sponsors: $250

Steema Software is a privately held company founded in 1996 and has been providing software tools for application developers ever since. Steema authors, distributes and supports all its products. Steema's flagship product, the TeeChart Charting Library, is widely acknowledged as an industry standard. http://www.steema.com.

Scooter Software's product Beyond Compare allows you to quickly and easily compare your files and folders. By using simple, powerful commands you can focus on the differences you're interested in and ignore those you're not. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records. http://www.scootersoftware.com

ComponentOne is a privately held company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. As a leading component vendor in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner program, ComponentOne provides a wide range of Microsoft Visual Studio components, IDE tools, jQuery UI widgets, and Web Parts for Microsoft SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. For more information, visit www.componentone.com.

Matrix Imaging Solutions specializes in document processing as an outsource function. Partner with Matrix to create a source of revenue for your company and while providing your customers a valuable, cost-effective method of getting their business critical documents in the mail. http://www.matriximaging.com

AKSEL, headed by Andrew MacNeill, is a consulting company that provides development, technical writing, media development (podcasting/screencasting), data analysis and project management services around the world. From short-term writing and analysis projects to long-term development and product management projects to community-driven projects, AKSEL offers personalized solutions to businesses and individuals, creating an ongoing working relationship. For more information, visit www.aksel.com.

Red Gate Software makes ingeniously simple tools for over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals working with SQL Server, Oracle, .NET, and Exchange Server. The company's product line includes must-have tools for .NET developers who program in C# or VB.NET, as well as tools for comparing, synchronizing, backing up and recovering SQL Server databases. Visit our web site for free 14-day trials, case studies, customer videos, and much more.

Axialis Software develops software solutions for professional graphic designers and developers. Products include IconWorkshop, Professional Screensaver Producer, CursorWorkshop and several others. http://www.axialis.com

ESET develops software solutions that deliver instant, comprehensive protection against evolving computer security threats. We pioneered and continue to lead the industry in proactive threat detection. ESET NOD32(r) Antivirus, our flagship product, consistently achieves the highest accolades in all types of comparative testing and is the foundational product that builds out the ESET product line to include ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com.

For over ten years, SourceGear has offered version control and bug tracking tools for Visual Studio developers.

Our popular version control system, Vault Standard, is designed to be a compelling replacement for Visual SourceSafe. The terminology is the same, all major VSS features are present, and with Vault’s VSS Handoff feature, users can be up and running in no time, with access to all of your VSS History, Shares and Pins.

Vault Professional contains all of the same great version control features found in Vault Standard, with the addition of tightly-integrated, native work item tracking, integration with Axosoft OnTime defect tracking, and build management. http://www.sourcegear.com.