>>People, like those of last assignment, who have invested lots of money and time into developing a successful product with a large client base. The clients are also hearing of the Fox deadend and are asking when the application will be ready for the .Net stage. Rewriting the application would require 3 years or more, where with eT compiler that could reduce the time to possibly less then a year. Plus add several enhancements that have pledge the application: 2Gig DBF limit as one of the big ones. If there is the ability mix language modules written in different languages (which I believe there is) then migrating the application would be much easier.
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>Where are you getting the 3years or more? We have a huge application for SEC reporting, Portfolio and Book generation that has been developed over a 10 year span. We are rewriting right now in c# and Silverlight. Our development timeline is 9 mo (with 7 developers) to product on the street.

Well, I am sure that the migration could be done in far less time if they would hired 7 .Net employees instead of relying on the VFP developers to learn .Net to do the job. They are a small Mom and Pop type of outfit. They are growing, but IMO not in the direction they need to archive their goal in the time span they would like.