>I work for SunTrust bank and support a medium sized VFP 6.0 app. The applicaiton is for real estate lending, both for individual mortgages and for large builder developments. We want to push out a upgrade to the product and we are stuck in committee. Everybody in committee wants to know why VFP? They are now even talking about sending our app to India to be rewrtitten in .Net. Of course you understand that these are a bunch of business suits who know nothing about the applications, the code, VFP or even .Net.
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>I need some ammunition - maybe some stats or a white paper - that VFP with some other trendy languages like .Net. Need something that shows VFP is a good language and database. Does anyone have anything?

Even MS does not really back-up VFP. So why the heck do you think anybody here could change the 'Suits' minds.

It's really sad that a product as good as VFP is being ignored by other 'Suits' (in that case MS). Do you know .Net? If that's the case then you can always fight to keep the development in-house. If not then is your resume up to date?

Not much to do against the big .Net marketing machine.

I'm sorry this reply is a lot fatalist but it really looks like we're at that point now. It's not the same if you make an application distributed in a vertical market. Like many do here. But if you work in a medium to big-sized business than VFP's days are close to over. More and more those businesses are following the in-crowd. Many times they - suits - don't know what they're talking about but if the other big boys do it why should'nt they.