>The notion of telling people there's a good living to be had for VFP developers looking after these apps is not good advice. Sure, some will be maintained, but at the rates and salaries I've been seeing for VFP work??? Give me a break.
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I think this goes hand in hand with companies having a difficult time hiring good VFP developers. With a smaller pool available, the rate has to go up if companies expect to be able to attract them. If they're not willing (able) to do that, they may find it's cheaper to switch development platforms (although I think good developers are hard to find for any dev. platform, they may find "good enough" developers for the job at hand).