>Please respond to this message if you have an opinion on the issue.
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>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.
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>Thank you.
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>My company is going to hire a consulting firm to upgrade our current FoxPro 2.6 code to FoxPro 6.0.
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>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.
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>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.
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>The code will have a 6+ year life cycle, and will have minor modifications for each customer.

Byron,
The majority of people that have responded have told you what they think.. Have you listened to what has been said?? If you just take your existing Foxpro 2.x app and recompile the screens and code into VFP you will have just that, recompiled code.. It will NOT take advantage of any of the features that have been added in to make Visual Foxpro...

The more time you spend doing the redesign of a project like this, the better results you ar going to get in the product...

Is this enough of an answer for you to take to your management??

Thanks!