>>>Greetings All -
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>>>So, without providing any background information that may steer the responses, how difficult would it be for a company in the Northeastern US to create a development group with say 6 - 10 GOOD Visual FoxPro programmer/analysts? I would say the definition of good would be a developer that can also discuss business needs and challenges with users, translate them into functional/system specifications, and then code and deliver the product.
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>>If you allow telecommuting it should be simple. I was involved in something exactly like this for about 18 months. We were working on a project (a HUGE project) for a company in Boston, there were 4 (sometimes 5) programmers and one guy who acted as the project manager. I was in FL, one guy was in CA, the others were scattered somewhere in between. If you stay organized enough, use instant messengers and plan conference calls it works out really well.
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>This is one of schemes where it's not "location, location, location", it's "communication, communication and source control".

Exactly! We had to communicate every day and eventually I setup a SourceOffSite server to handle version control.