Please respond to this message if you have an opinion on the issue.

I am being nuetral on my presentation of the facts, but I really need a massive industry consensus on the pros, cons and overall viability of this approach so that I can present management with more than just my opinion.

Thank you.




My company is going to hire a consulting firm to upgrade our current FoxPro 2.6 code to FoxPro 6.0.

The spec is to directly convert the data tables, ~20 screens and 10,000 lines of code in .prg files. Approximately 95% of the code should be directly convertable.

This is a high level concept of converting from Foxpro 2.6 to FoxPro 6. I need an industry consensus on the pro's and con's of a minimal conversion upgrade versus a major rewrite.

The code will have a 6+ year life cycle, and will have minor modifications for each customer.