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>>>>>Yeah we have use for VFP here and so far no one is throwing any DON standards down my throat, but I have attended a few IT meetings lately where we have been told to move our VFP desk top appilcations to the Web. But they never said not to use VFP as the back end database or FoxWeb as the HTML front end.
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>>>>>Right now I am more worried about NMCI and what it will do to me than I worry about DON application standards for the web. If you don't know what NMCI is then you are lucky, but if you work for the Navy or Marines in the computer fields then you know what I am going through.
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>>>>(Parenthetical forward - I have the strangest feeling here that the statement I'm about to make is wholly incorrect. However, being an optimist, I have hope that it is accurate)
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>>>>< Clears throat >
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>>>>Brett,
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>>>>Well I'm sure that the "powers that be" in this case did the proper evaluation prior to this decision to assure that the applications involved were of such a nature that it would be appropriate to be placed on the web.
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>>>>< crosses fingers >
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>>>No!
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>>*Sigh* I was afraid of that. Sounds all too familar.:-(
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>I know, I know. But if I was 25 I would be rather upset, but at 42 I just see it as another uninformed decision in a long line of uninformed decisions. I have developed teflon shoulders for government decisions. I just get my job done. Keep my users happy. And keep my head down when management looks for the next person to step up into their role.

Oh, BTW, I've heard it rumored that we're developing a server side Java applet for our web site. As I said, it's a rumor.