I'm convinced that although Vista had serious issues, the perception that Vista was terrible was made worse because of the major changes to the UI. Nobody likes change and inertia being what it is, our nature is to resist any attempt to make us change.
And yes I am including myself in that assessment and I still believe I'm right about the fact that there still is NO replacement equal to VFP. No hypocrisy there, right? Paul Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 6, 2017, at 7:17 AM, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have seen a few potential projects that the replacement had to be > identical to the former product, only on a new platform. Instead of making > an app that fit the platform first and doing what is needed as well. > >> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, at 10:42 PM, Darren wrote: >>> I know of a bank that spent upwards of 30M trying to port a VFP app, that >>> had been developed over 15+ years with a group of developers, to .NET - >>> all got dumped. 30M+ wasted >> >> None of these are a necessarily a .NET problem though, you can point to >> similar disasters with any platform and\or language. They will have been >> the usual lack of scoping, lack of ownership, overselling, >> overexpectations .... >> >> >> -- >> Alan Bourke >> alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm >> [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.
