I'm doing some work for a company that wants to convert a foxpro application to .NET. The application doesn't have a good design and having gone thru many programmers it's been patched a lot, so basically the problem is not that it is in foxpro, the problem is the design is poor.

Now in terms of converting, it does make sense to go to a newer technology like .NET, but of course having all foxpro programmers on the team (5) there's gonna be a learning curve which means that it's gonna be a long term conversion.

Then I started thinking, the main purpose is to have a good designed app that is developed in the shortest time possible as to impact the business positively, if it takes 1-2 extra years to conver to .NET instead of foxpro that's 2 more years of inneficiency and lost revenue, so I thought what if we redesign the application as planned but using foxpro in a tiered model, let's say a three tier model, that way we take advantage of our knowledge of foxpro and can get the app out the door much quicker impacting positively business and then little by little we can start migrating the front end to .net or whatever other tool we want and then if need be the middle tier also.

Any thoughts, testimonials? I know a lot of people are doing conversions so very curious about the these ideas, pros-cons, under the above scenario.

Thanks.