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Worrying about VFP discontinued -- follow the money :)
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27/05/2007 19:04:03
 
 
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27/05/2007 17:26:35
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Visual FoxPro
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I don't know how the market is in Cyprus, but to choose VFP now for new development would be an extremely poor choice if only just for one reason:

The pool of available (and qualified) VFP programmers is extremely small today and getting even smaller.

How could you justify to management investing in software that will be the lifeblood of you company knowing that?


>>If you inherited yesterday complete or majority ownership of say one insurance company, so every IT related expence as from tmrw would hv been directly deducted from your profits;
>>
>>Under presumption that there is line of of mission critical projects needed as they say 'for yesterday' ;
>>
>>Which DevTool/Database Platform would you be willing to pay for right now ?
>>
>>You know your fees, you know complexities, so be honest.

>>
>>I understand your question, but the problem is that there are so many major factors that you didn't cover. You haven't mentioned anything about the types of applications, user install base, environment, etc.
>
>You are right
>
>To be precise;
>Let's exclude Web commercial apps, What is needed is old fashioned
>day-to-day business automation.
>Single location, up to 100 users, crunching day-to-day business , high speed data entries, lot of data munging/manipulation, automations, high degree of cross system integration, cross database consolidated reporting etc.
>
>You are new owner/boss not develping anymore
>what would you use / be willing to pay ?
>

(On an infant's shirt): Already smarter than Bush
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