Face it William,

You are now a member of the "Pitifully Pathetic VFP Is Dead Vulture Club". :)

The UT should have a new category to isolate "VFP Is Dead Vultures" threads. That way, you don't have to say the SAME thing all over again to the SAME people. Makes sense doesn't it?

>>William
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>>Can you say who the bank is? Guess it would be an interesting case history to try and fight off the general ignorance around - I have 1 client who wants to move the app away from VFP simply because it's VFP he talk about open source, Access - sad thing about it he doesn't even have a good handle on what the app does
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>>What a wonderful hatchet job MS have done!!!
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>Hatchet job or not. The plug has been pulled. The announcment was made years ago. The writing was on the wall years before that.
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>The development environment is nice for old style development using the XP interface. With enough third party hacks it can be used for web applications.
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>For current interface and technology, it is dead.
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>If people want to stay with XP and XP style desktop apps, that is their business. There are still COBOL shops too.
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>VFP was a small niche product in it's heyday. It's dead. It isn't coming back. People need to get real and get over it.
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>>>>I guess you didn't hear that this time M$ killed VFP for real. And UT has nothing to do with it.
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>>>>>Well, I'm here to tell you all that the UT is NOT the center of the VFP Universe and that most of you have zero idea of the big companies that maintain and enhance very large VFP apps.
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>>>>>I work at one of the largest banks in the world with over thirty VFP developers (some are now managers, VPs) on, arguably, one of the largest VFP SAR apps in existence:
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>>>>>(1) 1400+ screens
>>>>>(2) Over 700 branch offices
>>>>>(3) Dozens of .NET web services supporting the core VFP product.
>>>>>(4) QA teams in India
>>>>>(5) etc., etc., etc.
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>>>>>All told, there are over 1,000 employees and contractors that support the project in one way or another. The Bank has NO plans (let me repeat, NO plans) to migrate the core VFP product to .NET. or any other platform - they have been unsuccessful numerous times over the years. There is one person on this thread who knows about this project.
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>>>>>The funny thing is that of all the VFP developers we have, only two or three have ever HEARD of the UT. In fact, of the many dozens of VFP programmers I have worked with over the years, I estimate that roughly 10% have heard of the UT and maybe 2% are actually members. Can you blame them? Who wants to read these stupid "VFP Dead Threads". I have been in and out (out mostly) of the UT for many years and nothing has changed.
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>>>Still running Cobol on the Honeywells too? They'll make a comeback some day. Tube memory still beats the crap out of those little transistor do-jobbies.