>>>>> That is......... assuming the next and great OS from M$ is compatible
>>>>> with VFP 9.0 SP2 + Sedna. If NOT.... then we are compatible till THAT
>>>>> time only. Probably 5 years MAX.
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>>>And assuming that there won't be a Vista Security Hotfix that disables something we really need to run VFP... ;-)
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>>Seriously speaking, virtualization made the OS problem gone nil for legacy applications. Virtual PC is now free. The most terrible situation can be the need of an XP license, but even that I'm not so sure about.
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>Yes, but won't you have to increase the horsepower of the user's PC's to run VPC (or VMWare for that matter)?? Does it not take about a Gig to run it with the same speed as before?? Just asking......

Not so much, really. Of course, if you have say 512 MB and you want to allocate 256 Mb for the Virtual PC, you'll have less memory available to the physical one. For most VFP apps you don't need a lot of memory, and in any case, if the application is critical, increasing RAM is not that expensive now. I know -if you have thousands of clients it may be... < BG>