>>>I see many companies (mainly SMB's) running entirely on VFP, for whom moving somewhere else would mean so many changes, so many inflection points, so many business risks that it requires a very strong engineering team to carry on safely. It also appears that many of these companies can't afford these engineering skills, for both economical and cultural reasons.
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>There's a fundamental contradiction here.
>If they need a strong engineering team and can't afford one, how did they get where they are?
>By the way.. who DOESN'T need a strong engineering team?
No, not necessarily a contradiction. If they have a good working system in VFP that means they hired or contracted a good dev team
sometime in the past. Doesn't mean they need, or have one, now.
Regards. Al
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