Kevin,

Wasn't VFP3 a bit different? My company released the first production VFP3 app in the world- from memory VFP3 was released on 1 August and NZ is 12 hours ahead of GMT, so armed with my free copy from finding bugs in the beta we had completed and released our very first clinical coding application at 1 minute past midnight. i think it was the first app built with an approved 32-bit tool as well, since from memory VFP was the first of those.

Most of it still works today and has not had to be rewritten except as a conversion to C/S which was easy since we used dreaded VFP views. Not bad for a 9-year-old application.

In contrast, the arrival of beans in Java 1.1 almost forced a rewrite for efficiency and GUI. In dotNET, methods we used in 1.0 had to be rewritten in 1.1, and our winforms will be a kludge on Longhorn unless we rewrite, no matter how it is disguised. And if we had moved to VB and/or ADO when advocated by "certain people" in this forum, that would be yet another rewrite along the way.

So as I said, some people are opposed not to the concept of "jumping" but to the timing and purpose of it. The trouble is that the insults start flying at the first opportunity and adult argument is blocked every time.

Regards

j.R