>>>Remind them that VFP 7.0 SP1 is the most stable version ever created!
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>>Some of the VFP programmers are trying to create a forum to discuss this move to VB6. We will invite our "experts" of VFP and VB6 and "duke" it out and discuss the HOWs and WHYs of both languages. But, it seems like the management's decision is being hammered onto a slab of granite as we speak.
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>That's too bad. Before I came here to this job, the people here had converted a major app from VFP 6.0 to VB 6.0. Took a while, and then they stopped, and we've stayed with VFP 6.0 (and now 7.0) ever since. (Don't know the details of why they stopped....).

Happened similarly in the company where I was working before. They brought me here to fill the gap between the couple of old Foxen and the bunch of kids who were learning it as they went; they created a suite of apps with miles of spaghetti inside, but it worked, sold, and was far from finished.

By the time my visa problems were solved, they were already writing the next version from scratch in SQL/T, VB COM objects and JScript/VBscript. The VB guru they hired meanwhile has proved that VB6 has a much faster access to SQL tables than VFP5 has, factor of at least five was mentioned, and a certain name from Microsoft was also mentioned as another reason to make VB "the language of choice". I wasn't aboard yet at the time; this is what I gathered from various people there.

About a year later, this guy left, and it took about half a year to see that his approach ("a highly denormalized database", "no you can't access the SQL tables directly, only through VB COM objects"). Then it took another half a year to get the few new gurus to write the SQL and VB stuff from scratch (and to tweak or also rewrite the ASP side), so the product was eventually ready... but too late. The investors were gone, and there was no money to keep the shop open.

Of course there's more to the story, and a bunch of other misguided business decisions, but this is my perceived base story. I was unemployed for four months after that, and actually never got paid for the last month, so make that five.