>>Ken L, if you are reading, I can get you e-mail addresses of our CIO, etc. so you can get more information and/or tell them the correct information they need to make this decision.
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>Joe,
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>You are obviously aware that Ken deals with this sort of situation, you also know exactly what information he needs in order to help you, and I would like to think that you do know how to reach him directly.
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>Now, what is the point of posting the message you posted?
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>I'm just guessing here:
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>For the record, I still maintain several clipper applications (yeah, as in "DOS" applications) and it's been about 8 years since both DOS and Clipper supposedly died.

I'm in the same boat here....

(We also do FoxBase, FoxProDos, FoxProWin, VFP3, VFP6, VB6 and MSSQL.... )

It's a living....

(Old programs never die.... they just get "supported").....

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>Alex
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>PS: if they want something that will last 3-5 years for sure, there's always assembler.

Cobol anyone????