>>I would not worry too much; you can continue writing applications in Visual FoxPro 8, or even Visual FoxPro 6, and they will continue working 10 years from now.
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>>Assuming that your clients, or potential clients, continue using Windows.
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>And 32bit versions, because vfp is supposed to be iffy on 64 bit.
I doubt that any application will be
slower on a 64-bit platform. It is just that to take full advantage of the 64-bit platform, and run
faster, as it should on a better processor, it is convenient to re-write or re-compile applications (in this case, VFP).
Applications will still run, and they will run about as fast as before. And, I don't see a widespread adoption of the 64-bit platform on the horizon.
For the near future, I would worry more about the growth of Linux.
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