Author: Thierry Nivelet
Posted: 2019-03-14 at 05:23:33
Hi Fletscher,
Does your client really knows that, since 10 is the last version of Windows, VFP will work as long as Windows 10 will work, and re-write and/or migration will bring nothing but cost and risk without a single benefit (except for those who rewrite): learning, moving data to SQL if not already, rewriting, testing, retraining users, managing the transition with part of the app in VFP and part in the new system (no new app ever work overnight), etc., maybe loss of functionalities, and risk that the transition works out badly…
Seeking alternatives to FoxPro was valid until Microsoft announced that Windows 10 was the last version (in may 2015, almost 4 years ago), today it's just seeking cost and risk for no other benefit than 'doing someting new'.
VFP is incredibly reliable; some FoxInCloud clients have FoxInCloud web apps with over 50 forms (could be more), 50 concurrent users (could be more), PostgreSQL database, 8 logical servers in parallel (stateless, many-to-many relation between users and servers), running full weeks without a single error (100% availability) while reading and writing thousands of files, tables, memos, indexes and so forth. The busiest server runs 25k user requests per day, that we can estimate over 1.2 billion VFP instructions, without a single error…
Bringing additional value to the existing VFP app is probably more worthy and interesting than rewriting; eg. with FoxInCloud.
(I know I don't really answer your original question, just trying to open new pathes).
Thierry Nivelet
FoxInCloud
Le 13/03/2019 à 16:45, Fletcher Johnson a écrit :
> Hi all,
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> I was asked for a list of current options for someone who has a VFP
> application and wants to migrate it to a supported language, with the least
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> I have seen many options listed, but am sure how compatible the various
> alternatives are. X# looks promising, but so do some of the others. And
> some that I thought were good options now appear to be dormant or
> discontinued. So I thought I would check with you fine folks to see if you
> know where I might find a list of current alternatives and their level of
> compatibility.
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