I heard a similar story for a web rewrite of a VFP app into .net. Back to square 1 after spending $5M.
Thierry Nivelet http://foxincloud.com/ Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud > Le 5 oct. 2017 à 21:43, Kevin Cully <[email protected]> a écrit : > > I worked for a company that produced Real Estate software for the commercial > side of things. We had a national client that said they were leaving our > product to develop a new .NET solution with another company. > > They returned after 1.5 years and after spending $2.1M. They started asking > us for enhancements again. Ouch. > > I'm figure throwing away a working system *may* work, but most likely it's an > expensive lesson to someone. > > >> On 10/05/2017 01:25 PM, Bill Anderson wrote: >> Kevin, >> >> At our user group we were told by a Microsoft representative (well known to >> the Fox community) that Dell was throwing away all their internal >> applications **sight unseen** to rewrite them in the beta version of .NET >> 1.0. >> >> I wonder how that turned out? >> >> Bill Anderson >> >>>> For 20 years now, Microsoft has been telling me that I've been developing >> with an inferior tool and that .NET is better. Is it ready now?<< >> >> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Kevin Cully <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> For 20 years now, Microsoft has been telling me that I've been developing >>> with an inferior tool and that .NET is better. Is it ready now? >>> >>> I think I'll stick with Foxpro and now Xojo for developing business >>> solutions. >>> >>> I don't hate .NET. I'm just going to continue to ignore it. >>> >>> >>>> On 10/04/2017 11:01 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: >>>> >>>> This is the 2017 .NET Conference Keynote >>>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yecu4g5JYB8 >>>> >>>> It has morphed from the .NET you all hated so much 15 years ago. They >>>> show >>>> working in Chrome and not Bing. >>>> >>>> the beginning goes over NuGet if you are unfamiliar with posting packages >>>> to it. >>>> >>>> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.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.
