Bill ----

Great post and very to the point :)


>Based on my own experiences with new versions of software (VFP or whatever), and considering the mission criticality of your app, I would have to agree with Jim Booth's recommendation. He focused on the primary business requirement in your case -- make it work or "go under" to use your term. From your point of view, you have confidence in VFP 5.0a, while 6.0's reliability is still unproven. If I were in your position, using 6.0 would be very tempting indeed, but if good ol' 5.0a could fulfill all of the business requirements, I would use 5.0a just to play it safe (chances are, the client won't know the difference anyhow). You can always move up to 6.0 later.
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>With that said, I would have to add that if you take away the mission criticality issue, I'd use 6.0 without hesitation.
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>Bill
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>>>>I know that a number of people are currently using the VFP 6.0 Beta. I am about 20% into converting a very large vertical market app from 2.6 for DOS to VFP. Currently I am using VFP 5.0a. With 6.0 comming out in the next week or so I am trying to decide should I jump on 6.0 and get all the new features or stay with a relativly stable 5.0a. If I don't get this right I could go under as this product is all we really have after over four years of work.
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>>>>Any comments?
>>>>Thanks,
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>>>John,
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>>>Let me pop in here with some analysis and design issues for you to consider. First of all I find VFP6 very stable and a vbery good platform for developing applications.
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>>>However, from what you said in your message you are working on a very high risk project (the future of the company depends on it). There are a number of risks that can be associated with any project, one of them is new technology. Since you already have a very high risk situation it is not desirable to add to the risk in any fashion. Even a very small incremental risk could brign the project down in flames.
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>>>So, my recommendation is to finish the project in VFP 5.0a and save VFP 6.0 for a future, less risky, project.
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>>Jim,
>> Thanks for your observations and thanks to all the other people also.
>>Does it look like you would be able to run a vfp 5.0 app under 6.0 with no changes? If so then I would simply wait for ver 6.0a or whatever. With FoxPro for the past 10 year that has been the case allmost all the time. But then Dr. Dave isn't around anymore and you never know.
>>John.