I'm convinced that although Vista had serious issues, the perception that Vista was terrible was made worse because of the major changes to the UI. Nobody likes change and inertia being what it is, our nature is to resist any attempt to make us change.
And yes I am including myself in that assessment and I still believe I'm right about the fact that there still is NO replacement equal to VFP.
No hypocrisy there, right?
Paul
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On Oct 6, 2017, at 7:17 AM, Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com wrote:
I have seen a few potential projects that the replacement had to be identical to the former product, only on a new platform. Instead of making an app that fit the platform first and doing what is needed as well.
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, at 10:42 PM, Darren wrote: I know of a bank that spent upwards of 30M trying to port a VFP app, that had been developed over 15+ years with a group of developers, to .NET - all got dumped. 30M+ wasted
None of these are a necessarily a .NET problem though, you can point to similar disasters with any platform and\or language. They will have been the usual lack of scoping, lack of ownership, overselling, overexpectations ....
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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