What an utterly ridiculous request by a client!

There is no way of telling what may be viable in 30 years from a static perspecctive. I guess if they are still running the same app in 2036 with the same underpinning tables...nah...can't see it.

You client's data is not being packaged into a time capsule, is it? The data will be safe - provided it evolves over the next 30 years with the technologies that emerge.

Sounds like a long-term marketing opportunity!


>A client in the resources industry recently asked for a database system that would need to be still running in 30 years time.
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>My record is only 16 years - that is to say when an old client handed me some 1990 FoxPlus backup diskettes last year I could say I had the same tables STILL RUNNING ON MY LAPTOP (well the son of the son of the son of the son of the original laptop).
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>But seriously, what backup strategies might be employed today (if any!) to have a VFP database or its data still running in 2036?
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>John Burton