On Apr 2, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Robert Jennings wrote:
> Your thoughts on all of the above will be appreciated.
I wonder if they would guarantee that apps written in .Net today
will run on the current OS in 2015.
My feeling is that if your app is working, there is no need to panic
and abandon all that good, solid code because they finally made
official what many of us have sensed for quite some time. Given the
number of really smart people who use Fox, I'll bet that even if
Microsoft doesn't do it, someone will figure out a way to make VFP
run on future OSs. Remember, the fast CPU fix didn't come from
Microsoft, but it enabled old Fox 2.x apps to run on hardware well
past the lives of the products.
Also, just how much faith would you put in a promise from Microsoft?
My feeling is that as long as it doesn't hurt their bottom line they
would keep it, but they'd have no problem "writing it off" if
conditions changed. I learned that after the VFP/Mac beta, after
spending a lot of time getting things working and tracking down bugs,
they released a known buggy product and then refused to commit to
patching the bugs they acknowledged just a few months prior. IOW,
their word is as good as their business cash flow.
Personally, I would begin planning for a transition to something
that will take you through the next decade or two. That's a long time
for any product, but it's also precisely why I think that .Net is the
worst choice you can make. In the mid-90s Microsoft was strongly
pushing their COM model as the way to go, only to dump it a few years
later for .Net. There is no reason not to think that in a few years
they'll come up with yet another trendily-named product, and tell you
that unless you move all your code to this platform, you'll be a
dinosaur.
-- Ed Leafe
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