>>>I wished we could just buy the new versions, but it's always harder to convince people in the upper management with these upgrades. And budget always comes into problem.:(
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>>If my boss used that argument, he would not be my boss anymore. The time you will save with VFP9 compared to VFP6 will pay for the upgrade in a very short time, maybe in just a few days. Time is money!
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>Business doesn't see it like that. If you're a salaried employee, you have been budgetted already. If you have VFP 6, it's been budgetted too. If you suddenly want an upgrade - it's not been budgetted and so has to be requested, justified, etc. etc.
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>I'm sure you can see how one might want to avoid all that? :)

Of course I see that point, but how long is it since VFP6 was released, 10 years? It should have been written off by now. :-)