>My experiences go both ways -- some customers don't care at all, some care a whole lot.
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>I've been building large transplant matching applications with VFP for a local Children's Hospital's research group for years, and I am experiencing increasing resistance from their IT department specifically because they think Foxpro is the culprit in decreased network performance, a potential security risk and unruly citizen in the network. They tell my clients that Foxpro is "certainly something we won't support -- you are on your own." As a result it is becoming harder and harder to continue this particular work -- if I didn't have the research department head's unwavering support that I've earned over the last decade and a half, I'd have to rewrite the whole Winchester Mystery House from the foundation up. Which might not be a bad idea, since by now the system sure has doors that open up to blank walls, hallways that lead nowhere, and staircases that go on endlessly but lead nowhere, like in M. Escher's paintings. The thing screams out for refactoring, but since it is in heavy daily use there is no time to stop and do that, and as long as the department head keeps her position the system will continue running despite the IT department's displeasure.

If it is mission critical/day to day work app, then IT dpt have to STFU and make sure nothing is bothering that VFP app from doing its job. I dunno of organisation whose priority is to keep IT dpt happy, against well being of some production line.
But then again you never know; funny thing happens in US corporate world all the time {g}