NUMMI was a difficult place to work. We had several critical applications, both desktop and web, and I suggested VFP. I even had offers from Rick Strahl, Ken Levy, and YAG to help by talking to NUMMI Management, but I was told there would be no discussions. Ken was willing to fly down from Microsoft, to Fremont, California.

I would inherit applications that did not work for whatever reason. It seemed that Visual Basic was a strange dog! A critical application would work for months and then crash. One of my jobs was to resolve such issues. It turned out that VB had “soft failures”, that would not be caught when you complied the app. With C# if you had an issued, it would freeze on the offending line of code, until you resolved the issue.

As long as there is a Bill Gates, there will always be a product called “Basic” in the Microsoft Product Line.

In case you are interested, the movie "Gung Ho" with Michael Keaton, was based upon NUMMI. My son and daughter rented the film to show me the first day after work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_Ho_(film)

A "normal day" at NUMMI was much worse than this film depicted. The first three months I was there 6 men died from heart attacks between start time 0600 and 0605 hours. They hired two full time doctors and nurses and the death rate decreased. Talk about stress! The top Japanese management would not talk to you for any reason. That would be improper. Not even a simple "good morning".

Tom