{"id":196,"date":"2004-06-03T21:13:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T13:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=196"},"modified":"2007-11-20T03:38:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T19:38:44","slug":"thoughts-vfp-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/196","title":{"rendered":"THOUGHTS . VFP Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lmacedo.eti.br\/vfp.htm\" target=\"_blank\">VFP Revolution<\/a> has been floating around for a week or more and this evening I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigberntson.com\/archives\/2004_06_01_archive.asp#108614389845147681\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Berntson&#8217;s opinion<\/a> about it on his FoxBlog.  Though his opinions may sound pessimistic to some (especially to those live\/die-hard Foxpro coders out there), it is in a way a practical approach on how to view things. <\/p>\n<p>I also have some thoughts about this matter since the first day I&#8217;ve read those &#8216;we-feel-abandoned&#8217; type of articles in the &#8216;net, but up to this moment I&#8217;m still struggling to organize those thoughts.  <\/p>\n<p>Just recently I was talking online to a former college classmate of mine who is working on a company whose boss is requiring them to convert their VisualFoxpro systems into a VisualBasic one.  My pet tiger and I cringed at hearing that news.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; if you&#8217;ll look closely at Microsoft.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];LifeDevToolFam\" target=\"_blank\">Product Lifecycle Dates : Developer Tools Family<\/a>, you&#8217;ll see that the Extended Support for Visual Foxpro <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana\">8.0<\/font> ends on the <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana\">31<\/font>st of March <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana\">2010<\/font> and probably VFP<font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana\">9<\/font> which will be released late this year will have three to four more years&#8230; probably around <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana\">2014<\/font>, and that&#8217;s ten years from now.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years is such a long time in the world of computers and the internet era.  With that span of time you can still develop countless database-driven systems that will last five times that span of time.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230; should VisualFoxpro developers worry about the operating systems and platforms more..?<\/p>\n<p>Just a part of the random thoughts I have on this matter that I&#8217;m still trying to organize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VFP Revolution has been floating around for a week or more and this evening I was reading Craig Berntson&#8217;s opinion about it on his FoxBlog. Though his opinions may sound pessimistic to some (especially to those live\/die-hard Foxpro coders out there), it is in a way a practical approach on how to view things. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomscribbles","category-workblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}