Well, there are some out there. I have a client that is still using an app I wrote in the early 90's using FP2.6. Just the other day they called asking about upgrading it, a few new features etc.

This particular app handles some very complex and complicated billing procedures. I suggested 1. Find a shrink wrap app for their company (but none exists) 2. Having the app redone in an updated programming language (tried that, could not find a developer willing to tackle it at a reasonable price) 3. Changing their own operations to make it easier to find a shrink wrap app or a developer (not willing to let the tail wag the dog) 4. Have me (the original developer) update the app using VFP9 as a front end and converting their data store to SQL SERVER (that's why Peter Cortiel is asking all of those SQL questions).

Since I was smart enough at development time to include the complex billing routines in a business object, and they are fairly happy with current user interface, it will be a piece of cake once we figure out how to convert to SQL Server.

I understand we are dinosaurs but we are slowly improving! <s>

Ken


>>Whil is a pretty smart guy and I would not doubt there is a market for what he is suggesting and he is the person most qualified ( and patient ) to service it.
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>I think the fact that he sent that email to his customer list (and whomever else) indicates there isn't much of a market, if any.
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>I know there are some dinosaur Foxbase and FoxPro apps still out there, but I'd be stunned if someone actually wanted to pay to have them 'upgraded' to VFP.
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>>But it really does feel like getting a message from the Gas Company saying "Hey, if you have been asking yourself if all this newfangled stuff is just a fad and you really need to start thinking about replacing some of your whale-oil lamps, we now can help you make the transition to gas lamps with the exciting new IsingGlass technology ... "
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>>>Pretty much my reaction to the message.
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>>>I sent him back a reply asking if this had been stuck in a mailqueue since the '90s since that would be the last decade this would have had relevance.
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>>>>You know how every once in a while there will be a news story about the Post Office delivering a letter somebody mailed back in 1936 and it had been lost behind a cabinet in a post office or something and just now found?
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>>>>Like I'm sure a lot of folks here I recently got a message in my Inbox subject : "Moving from FoxPro 1.x/2.x to Visual FoxPro." and my first reaction was that somehow this had been stuck in a queue in a mail server someplace since 1996 and was just now making to to me ... from Whil Hentzen. If I had not seen 2012 in the message body I would have remained convinced.
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>>>>Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>>A month and a half ago I sent out a mailing about moving
>>>>from FoxPro 1.x/2.x to VFP. The response was quite
>>>>robust - you will appreciate that a *lot* of companies
>>>>have a conversion to VFP on their 'To Do' list for
>>>>2012.
>>>>
>>>>I've worked on several projects, with more in the works,
>>>>and have continued to fine-tune the process, as no two
>>>>situations are exactly the same, right?
>>>>
>>>>If you've got a budget, and you're willing and able to
>>>>put some elbow grease into the process yourself, your
>>>>1.x/2.x system can likely be turned into a VFP system
>>>>by the end of 2012. If we start now, that is.
>>>>....
>>>>
>>>> If you've been intimidated by the prospect of learning the Visual
>>>>FoxPro paradigm, fear no longer - I've brought many
>>>>experienced FoxPro/DOS and FoxPro for Windows 2.x
>>>>programmers into the world of Visual FoxPro with
>>>>little pain and much delight and rejoicing as they
>>>>discover the new capabilities and possibilities of VFP.
>>>>
>>>>So...... If you need a hand with your FoxPro 1.x/2.x
>>>>system, I'm available - but my dance card for the
>>>>spring is filling up - contact me ASAP to get on
>>>>the schedule!
>>>>
>>>>I like Whil a lot and he is definitely the best person I can think of to serve this niche - but apparently booming - market.
>>>>
>>>>But I've gotta say the whole thing made me smile and realize what a wonderfully diverse, complex world it is and how one man's meat is another man's "I'd get a gun and stick up liquor stores before I'd do that for a living" .
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>>>>I've done a fair amount of training in both IT and other diverse areas, and I am trying to picture training people who have been intimidated by VFP and now are finally ready to think they will learn something new ... and a picking VFP.
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>>>>That's why Ben and Jerry's makes all those flavors. <g>