I ran into the same situation where I worked. They spent a year with a team of outsourced developers and configuration people working on Oracle Financials and IBM's Websphere to replace our two main FoxPro applications. And these two apps were still in FoxPro for Windows 2.6! I had a VFP exe that did work with imported data from our web site and sent automatic email replies through our Lotus Notes system, but most of the work was done in the 2.6 apps. By the end of the year they were still struggling with the Oracle side. I wrote programs to extract all of the data required for import into Oracle. There were several output files for use in A/R, A/P, and all other accounting setups. The entire extract took my VFP programs about a half hour to run. It took them four days to input the data to Oracle. In the mean time, users were telling me how slow the new system was. One girl told me that something that took 1.5 minutes max in the FoxPro app took 15 minutes in Oracle. And another year later and they still haven't gotten the WebSphere thing to work. They may never, it just doesn't do some of the things my apps could do!


>My VFP apps are beating the pants off ERP! It has been over two years since ERP was supposed to replace all my apps. Since then, they have not been able to match what I have already done and so I keep getting extension waivers. Now they are finally admitting it will cost at least 100K each to replicate my apps.
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>They are also annoyed by the fact that no DBA's or connection licences are required for 3 of my 4 apps, saving them lots of money over ERP\Oracle solutions.
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>There is no way on earth they can justify replacing my apps. However, my customers think they may be forced back to pencil\paper or spreadsheets.
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>Charlie