On 3/15/07, Michael Hawksworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is also worth considering that selling (I mean selling not promoting) > a fox based business now will be much harder and give lower rewards.
That's not been my experience. I've been called in on a couple of buyouts to evaluate a VFP product getting purchased by another company. In the selling of the business which tool used to develop the software tends to be a small factor in the mix. > Not to mention that good developers are like rocking horse dodo (!?!) > now so what will it be like in a few years? I have no idea what you're saying here. If you're saying that finding those developers who are two stddev's above the mean is hard, well, it's hard to fight the nature of the normal curve. > However there is still plenty of time to move on and plenty of systems > out there will be running on vfp well into the future. I do not want to play Chicken Little screaming the sky is falling, but I have never had a gig where the original developers really grasp how much time and resources they poured into a development project (sometimes over ten or fifteen years) and how long it will take to: - gain proficiency with a new set of tools - learn to write in the mindset of the new tool (and not continue to write FoxPro code in another language) - discover how poorly they documented the behavior of the current app - move the model of the application from the current design (VFP DBFs or views or remote views or client/server) into a new model (almost always client/server but sometimes embedded or embedded + replication) - avoid gold-plating the transition, adding in a new five-tier model in case they want to go to a web-based, SOA-focused, distributed data design later - avoid major feature introductions while porting (how do you determine the new program gets the same results as the old program when you change the way it works?) > The delivery of > a compiler may be around the corner extending the window still further What's this? > Yup change is coming... but I think you will notice the impact of global > warming sooner than the cooling of the vfp business (couldn't resist the > warming/cooling thing). Global warming is here now. Otoh, I saw cooling in the VFP market around the release of VFP 7... > I wonder if anyone has registered www.csharp.co.uk? It's parked, but http://www.python.co.uk/ is live... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ 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 ** 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.
