Provincial mandate? Dude, you can't be serious: the government is telling you which tools you can use? Auggghhh....socialism at it's bloodiest.

Anyway, I have never had an application that I wrote in Fox migrated to anything else in almost 20 years. Seriously! But I have had some applications that were DOA: The needs changed so dramatically that the client decided not to implement my application and we had an amicable parting.

In those cases, though, I did feel depressed. I mean, it's like you were an artist whose commissioner died so you're left hanging the portrait in the basement.


>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?