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07/07/2016 13:04:02
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelPays-Bas
 
 
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07/07/2016 08:59:45
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Catégorie:
Autre
Titre:
Versions des environnements
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows 10
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Divers
Thread ID:
01637996
Message ID:
01638052
Vues:
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>>>Hi Gang!
>>>
>>>I was laid off, along with about 115 other people, back on May 20th, 2016. The company I worked for was sold to another company, and as usual, there is attrition.
>>>
>>>I have tried looking for work in my local area, but with little .NET experience, and a lot of Visual Foxpro experience (which no one cares for), I am finding it very difficult to find any work. Being 64 with a limited skill set makes me an endangered species.
>>
>>I wonder why so many foxers think their next step should be dot net? If I had to switch to anything, I'd be a DBA. C'mon guys, we're foxers, we know data, we know tables, we'd make great DBAs. Switching to dot net, it would take me the rest of my time before retirement to reach this level of proficiency. Doing SQL, I'd only have to brush up on some unused areas and then be able to code circles around at least half of the admins I've met.
>
>Candidly Dragan, there's more to being a DBA (or a hybrid database developer, as Sergey said).
>
>On the "we know data, we know tables, we'd make great DBAs"....does that mean self-made Access gurus are going to make great DBAs as well?
>
>John Baird is an excellent example of why it pays to learn both .NET "and" SQL Server. He and I were working in Fox in 2003 for a company that went through serious layoffs. He did some major self-study in .NET and SQL Server and got himself a much better job in under a year. And he was older than dirt when that happened. :)
>
>Or if not .NET, at least learn another application development area.

Learning .NET seems taking a step backward to me in many respects. I'd rather go for developing applications in SAAS environments where you do not have to reinvent te wheel and have to program a lot for dealing with the very basics of application development. I'd go and learn Servoy, Windev or any other RAD environments where you can focus much more on solving business problems rather than having to write and maintain an entire framework.

In fact we've looked at Servoy and it is massively impressive. But having millions lines of code and a rappid demand of new features and a booming buisiness made an easy switch an impossible task to do. Instead we are looking for experienced VFP developers or developers who are capable to learn VFP. We will be developing new code for many years to come. Not that we don't recognise there are more modern tools, but the investment to change is huge and the time that it takes to do so will cost us our leading place in the market. Instead we put our energy to move the GUI to the web and writing our biz objects in VFP. It might take years to accomplish that, but when it does we can slowly migrate everything to the browser.
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