Well, I often read from experts that rewriting a s/w using new techs was a piece of cake compared to maintaining old clumsy legacy stuff… your story sounds like a counter example.
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Le 5 oct. 2017 à 21:43, Kevin Cully kcully@cullytechnologies.com a écrit :
I worked for a company that produced Real Estate software for the commercial side of things. We had a national client that said they were leaving our product to develop a new .NET solution with another company.
They returned after 1.5 years and after spending $2.1M. They started asking us for enhancements again. Ouch.
I'm figure throwing away a working system *may* work, but most likely it's an expensive lesson to someone.
On 10/05/2017 01:25 PM, Bill Anderson wrote: Kevin,
At our user group we were told by a Microsoft representative (well known to the Fox community) that Dell was throwing away all their internal applications **sight unseen** to rewrite them in the beta version of .NET 1.0.
I wonder how that turned out?
Bill Anderson
For 20 years now, Microsoft has been telling me that I've been developing
with an inferior tool and that .NET is better. Is it ready now?<<
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Kevin Cully kcully@cullytechnologies.com wrote:
For 20 years now, Microsoft has been telling me that I've been developing with an inferior tool and that .NET is better. Is it ready now?
I think I'll stick with Foxpro and now Xojo for developing business solutions.
I don't hate .NET. I'm just going to continue to ignore it.
On 10/04/2017 11:01 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
This is the 2017 .NET Conference Keynote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yecu4g5JYB8
It has morphed from the .NET you all hated so much 15 years ago. They show working in Chrome and not Bing.
the beginning goes over NuGet if you are unfamiliar with posting packages to it.
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