>Today it was announced that a foxpro application that I created in 1994 is being phased out. The kidney unit (who I still support a few hours per week) is moving to an Oracle-based database that is hosted over the internet. They were happy with the application, but they were required to move to the Oracle system because of a provinical mandate.
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>I actually feel sad. Does this sort of thing bother anyone else?

Evan,

Sure, we all go through this. I suppose that when developers have such a strong emotional 'connection' to their work that it's only normal to feel a sort of sense of loss. It's that ability to get emotionally involved in a project that both makes us good and bad at what we do; good in that we pour our hearts into the project and bad because we can lose our objectivity when circumstances require (or in your case - force) a change.

I suppose what would really bother me about what you have explained is that the decisioncould very possibly be a political one rather than one made for good business or technical merit.