>It's no rocket science either. It's not like making Windows API calls with Structures from Visual FoxPro. Now there's something that's hard to do.
>But not impossible!

Nothing's impossible. That still doesn't mean I want to do it very often. <g>

>The whiners are too lazy to do the work themselves!
>I guess thats why Quay had to hire EPS and the NET convsion team.

That has nothing to do with it. Why do people hire consultants? They want support of a knowledgable team that has been through the task at hand before and provides expertise that is not internally available. This goes beyond just the conversion process. It also involves the software development process.

>Since you seem to be speaking without bias - maybe you can tell me - is there really such a thing as VFP to NOT conversion?

Certainly. There are a lot of companies doing it, some for the right reasons, some for the wrong one, just like any other project. I'm involved in one project right now where the old VFP application has just gotten so complex and has outgrown the original framework it was designed on that it has to be re-written no matter what. In this case the company decided to do the re-write in .NET and so far at least it's going well.

I've also seen a couple projects (that I decided not to be involved in because of this) that wanted to move to .NET for no better reason than to get away from FoxPro. I have no idea how they turned out, but this is what I call definitely for the wrong reasons.

But this sort of thing doesn't just happen for FoxPro. It also happens for VB applications going to Java or occasionally the other and it's usually a politically motivated operation, not one that has technical merit. I've seen too many of these sorts of things fail miserably because usually politically motivated moves don't have the backing of the technical staff so it's a struggle to keep the project moving and worse to get the project just to duplicate the functionality of an existing system (ie. read: wasted time for cost benefit).

As with anything in life - making the right choices for the right reasons is always desired but often far from what really happens...