>>>>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?
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>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.

Or they have an excellent team of VFP programmers, but no or very little knowledge of other development platforms.