At 09:41 AM 9/13/2011 +0100, Alan Bourke wrote: >On Monday, September 12, 2011 9:56 PM, "Allen" ><[email protected]> wrote: > >I'm risking being called a shill for Servoy here, which I'm totally not, >but I had some replies to your points. I'm only evaluating it as well. > > > I am wondering why you want an alternative to VFP. It's not dead yet > >2015, yes. That might be not very far away at all depending on the size >of application you have to re-engineer in a replacement technology. ...
As a side point. Do you consider VFP 6 dead? I think MS stopped "supporting" that, what 5 or 6 years ago? However, my VFP 6 apps are running fine - even under Windows 7 (of course, I tried to make sure and avoid any MS recommendation about how to develop my apps, so maybe that's helped the longevity). And as another point, I can't recall a single time where MS "supporting" my tools (even besides VFP) actually gained me anything. The few times we tried to call in for tech support we got nowhere. A couple times we'd get an open ticket, a couple weeks of a phone call here or there telling us to modify dozens of registry settings, and never correcting the problem. We basically found solutions/workarounds ourselves or from others on the Web. So, you see, I really don't give 2 craps about MS's "support" schedule. Big companies that are locked into MS will of course be concerned about it. Even though they don't actually get "support" the IT group has someone they can blame and therefore keep their job. <shakes head> -Charlie _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
