Hi Hilmar,

one point that I haven't seen made is that improvements in the IDE in the later versions alone could justify the upgrade. The developers could upgrade, but still compile in the older versions (once they've not used any of the new language constructs).

>I noticed that many developers seem to have upgraded until VFP version 6, but then stopped. At work we still use version 6. I suggested upgrading, but it seems they are not too keen on the expense. A while ago, the reason was rather the compatibility with operating systems (version 8 or later is not designed to work with Windows 95), but by now, that should be irrelevant.
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>I was wondering, for what reasons other develoeprs remained with version 6. Is it the upgrade cost? The Windows versions supported? Not enough time to learn the new features? Or some other reason?