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VFP after 2015
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10/09/2007 10:34:20
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01253216
Message ID:
01253402
Views:
16
>>VFP will be supported until 2015
>>After this how many years do you guys estimate it will still live
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>>5, 10 or 15 year
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>>Which kind of catastrofe can cause VFP to stop running
>>
>>(sorry, my interrogation mark is gone)
>
>
>I think VFP will be a viable tool until the 2010-2012 time frame. The next major revision of Windows will kill it. It will still run, Microsoft has promised that, but it won't look like a modern development tool.


I'm more worried about what the fate of DBF tables. Will it die as VFP dies?

To me having forced to go to another DB would be more of a hardship then switching language.
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
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– Mark Twain (1866)
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