These days, you have to keep up with the competition that’s offering apps with a rich UI, web & mobile versions, and the ability to integrate with many platforms and cloud service providers. However, there are compelling reasons to modernize that make sense from the larger business application economy. You don’t want to migrate your VFP application…that is, unless you have a lot of time, energy, and money to spend. Domain knowledge that outweighs any technology decisions.In-house expertise to work-around challenges to keep VFP running.Our experience with companies across the world that have modernized parts of their product suite shows that they are in large part still confident in their legacy systems for three big reasons.
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A Windows update could irreparably break it, but the chances are high that it won’t. Yes, your application could “explode” tomorrow. VFP end-of-life is not the reason you should be modernizing. VFP End of Life Is Not the End of the World NET in the process.Īnother reason not to migrate your Visual FoxPro (VFP) apps to another platform is that without sufficient in-house capability, businesses must hire expensive consulting to rewrite, test and deploy the application (most of these apps have extensive and complex business logic too). The automation techniques out there simply do code-generation and leave you to clean up the mess. However, that solution does not exist in reality. And if there was a viable solution to automatically do that, it would be a beautiful thing. It might be tempting to migrate your FoxPro applications to a modern platform. Why You Don’t Want to Do a FoxPro Migration We will follow up with a second blog that gives our recommendations. In the next two blogs we’ll look at the specific questions we are getting and include our opinion. Since then, we have had an uptick in inquiries about Visual FoxPro conversions and migrations. Microsoft quit their support of FoxPro around OS Vista in 2007, but has now announced their mainstream support of Windows 10 will end this October. The Truth About Microsoft Support and Visual FoxPro Migration