Your example is too much fun… 4 years rewriting dumped because of dependencies … LOL

As for investors, that do like the newspaper says, or the general opinion.

>The problem are the investors, not VFP which will do very well in a lot of cases.
>When this thread started, I mentioned that I rewrote a large VFP-application with VS/VB.NET(SQL-Server
>which took about 4 years time. When it was finished (as finished can be with an app...) it worked well,
>the test-customrs were happy anf everything looked fine.
>But........when it came to deploying the software, they found out, that it took much more time to
>install all the components, they had some trouble with installing sql-server and so on.....
>The end of the song is, that I am now reworking the VFP-based app. Fortunately enough I got paid
>for all this.
>And when it comes to new apps in VFP, I wrote a touch-screen-based POS-app with VFP which is
>perfectly suited for this task. So there a still a lot of scenarios wehre VFP will be the best tool.
>
>Best regards
>
>Thomas