Hi Bret:

I feel your pain! NMCI is wreaking havoc on my life too.

I just found out yesterday all legacy applications must be converted to web apps by 2004. They also have written a very detailed spec on how they should be structured: Three-tier with XML for messaging.

This is good news to me because it means new and more challenging work, but they are not allowing VFP on any tier. However they are allowing C#, VB and SQL Server which comes as a surprise to me because I thought they were pretty much all Oracle.

They are gonna start installing the new desktops soon. And from what I hear, the users will not be able to change anything on them. They are calling them "locked down". This is going to make it very difficult to support my apps as they will no longer allow them to download EXE's over the LAN for updates. Also, I hear if you want to make a change it has to be approved by some organization on the west coast before you can install it on a client.

Things are just starting to happen. It gonna be interesting to see how things turn out.

Charlie