>I'd love to do all my development in VFP but several of my clients insist otherwise.
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>One, a multinational company with a huge IT budget tells the developers that FPW is what they're using & that's the end of that.
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>Another, much smaller client won't spend the money upgrading the hardware so the development continues in FPD.
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>Yet another is willing to upgrade the hardware, but their system in FPD work welll and has done without error for 18 months and they don't want the problems of a redevelopment. It isn't broken so don't fix it. So enhancements continue in FPD.
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>It's not so much what I want to do that counts. I make recommendations to my clients & they make the final decision. If they choose to ignore my advice then that is their business and I can either say 'find someone else to do the development' or do what they want.
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>So I have 3 versions of FoxPro on my notebook, FPD 2.6, FPW 2.6 and VFP 5 and I use them all.
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There have been many published studies that show that hanging onto such old technology gives your competitors a huge advantage. IMO, don't count on these clients being there down the road, no matter how big they are.