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Really fast computers and patch still not good enough
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09/12/1999 15:48:19
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00300974
Message ID:
00301262
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34
Dana,

Thing is is that your company is going to spend that oney in supporting the older version of FoxPro. Either way the dough will get spent.

Best,

DD


>Jim,
>
>
> I love your answer! It's my answer! However, it's not corporate's answer at this time. That may soon change, but we have much to do and it would take too many man-hours to convert the applications at this time. See my longer answer to David F.
>
> Thanks for your input, though. I will keep trying to convince my boss.
>
>Dana
>
>
>>Dana,
>>
>>You will probably not like my recommendation. Stop using a 6 year old version of software on a new computer. Make a strong argument to your boss that it is time to update the software because of the incompatibility with newer computers. Tell him that the software will not operate dependably on newer machines and that it should be updated to use a newer development language version.
>>
>>You may find a patch somewhere that fixes this, but then you will get PIV 750 or PV 1000's and the problem will be back.Dana,
Best,


DD

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