I was on the other end of this type of situation. There was a software / hardware company with about 100 employees and several hundred customers that had a killer DOS application. I had an application that interfaced with their system and I was supplying that application to my customers. My flagship account upgraded all of their computers to NT and the RS232 reader with their system would not work with NT.
Someone once said, "If you don't take care of your customers, someone else will." The first thing we did was create a VFP program that communicated with the device using CommTools to keep our customers working. Since we were at it, we re-wrote their entire application using VFP. My partner and I did it in less than 6 months! So now we sold the replacement application in addition to our interface. The company spent 6 years and spent 10 million dollars to develop a Window application using C++ that never got off the ground. They eventually bought a company that had a decent windows product and they are still in business. Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] SanDC, Inc. 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 Ed Leafe wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:31 AM, Bill Arnold wrote: > >> Since this matter is of great economic consequence to me, > > Two observations: > > 1) Since it is of great consequence to you, you should consider that > your interpretation of events is being greatly colored by your > financial fears. > > 2) If you were a public company, you would have had a fiduciary duty > to minimize the downside of the risk you were taking by planning for > alternatives. You now have a 7-year or so window to transition to > something else, and yet you steadfastly refuse to do so. > > Microsoft is acting in its own interests. The same cannot be said > for you. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.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 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.
