Brenda, I'm not the most informed in this area, but you should try to get more info on large ERP systems being built in VFP. If I'm not wrong Accounmate and AccPac in USA and Pegasus in England are mainstream ERP systems written in VFP. Besides, if I'm not wrong, AccountMate and AccPac have been bought by SAGE, a multinational Business solutions company with about 3.6 million licences sold. The people at SAGE don't look like a bunch of nerds trying to have fun, looking at their figures it seems they know one or two things about software development.

I would suggest you to research a bit in this direction, business people trust other businesses stories when succesful (do you know that many MBA's are built on the case method, and that Harvard Business School is one of their pioneers?). As I told you I'm not the best informed on ERP systems, maybe some other in this group can guide you better (try to ask Martín Salías, he is on the ERP business and is very knowledgeable).

If you can make them view that a lot of businesses rely on VFP for their day to day operations, they will change their minds. My background is more on business administration than on computer science, and I think I know how these comitee people behave.

HTH,
Javier.

>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?
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>Thanks
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>Brenda