Hi All!

Recently, I emailed a general explanation of what we're considering for porting our large FPD 2.6 application to Visual FoxPro 6.0. The responses I've received were informative ( and adamant! ) I need to ask a few more pertinent questions first to understand your frame of reference.

Have you ever migrated/ported a DOS to VFP enterprise-level application?

If you have, did you later rewrite the application to be fully OOP and n-tiered in VFP 5.0 or VFP 6.0?

Could you please list as many reasons as possible why you would ( or would not ) undertake migrating/porting from FPD to VFP? In other words, if you had to do it over, would you have rewritten it in VFP? Please list as many reasons as you can -- enough for me to consider and learn from.

I'm asking these questions earnestly in order to learn from your experiences about what you would do differently -- if you could do it over again. Think of me as an adolescent learning from a parent. :^)

Sincere thanks!


David Powell
WagnerSys@aol.com