Robert- What a well-thought-out and well-written email.
Many folks have recently focused on what particular language/tool to which they "need" to switch due to recent events. Your focus on the business issues at hand is refreshing and right on target, IMHO. "There are no technical problems, only business problems." Your $400K number is very similar to the $500K number I've had as a working cost to bring our development capabilities in .NET up to par with what we can already do in VFP; and I truly believe that is a conservative number. We're a small company, and that is a big number. I can speak very clearly for our company; there will be no "conversions" to .NET with existing products and services because it makes no business sense (for us). Period. While we do occasional .NET work, we are paid for every bit of it. Same with LAMP work; same with C++ work. But most of our existing work is with VFP, and will continue as long as it makes good business sense. We have won multiple awards in the last 12 months for our work (see the news on our site) which is underpinned by VFP throughout. We will be sponsors for two VFP conferences this year (FoxForward and SWFox) and continue to grow our staff of VFP developers. Dave Bernard The Intellection Group, Inc. http://www.IntellectionGroup.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Jennings Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Another life after VFP thread? Hi all, I don't often get time to read the profox list as I'm busy with my head in code, providing solutions to problems posed by customers. I think that the thread has certainly brought up many thoughts and discussions of languages. It may be fine for a programmer who goes from company to company to pick up lots of languages and write software in them (Which is fine) but my problem is that I have applications that I have out in the Market, we have over a thousand sites/ships using our software. Prior to 2000 the company had software written in Clipper running in DOS. VFP was the natural progression to provide the software on the Windows Platform. (yes a rewrite was required from the ground up) Saying that, it took 2 years to Migrate 1 application from Clipper to VFP. <snip> _______________________________________________ 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]@comcast.net ** 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.
