mrgmhale wrote:
> Bastards indeed! After they "fixed" their interface they told my client
> (who knows me well, and has seen me lock horns with others in the past with
> technical issues where I have found defects/problems) they only altered
> their app because I was being so uncooperative, and I never should have used
> an outdated language ("total solution"? <g>) as Visual FoxPro since it was
> dead, and VB6 was the ideal language to use for any serious development....
> Hmmm... Their app locks up (even now) every few weeks, and needs to be
> restarted, and their Access table based searches are slow. My stuff VFP
> runs fast, and is up 24 x 7, never locked up, not once ever (Windows 2000
> SP4).
>
And your client knows the *truth* then, right? It'd be great if he
called them on it, just as you noted above.
> When one of their installers was on site during all this controversy he
> needed to do a conversion on his Access tables. He began to run his VB6
> conversion against the Access affected table (over 400,000 records), and it
> was poking along real slow. I asked him to kill his update process and let
> me perform the conversion using VFP on an updateable view via ODBC. He
> scoffed, so I told him the worst he could do is learn something, or better
> yet he could torment me about my outdated VFP app if it did not run faster
> than VB6. He agreed, and I wrote a simple STRTRAN('<string>', '-', '*') for
> .t. piece of code, followed with tableupdate() of course. Wow! Even I was
> shocked at the performance difference! Pow! It went so fast that he then
> scanned every record in VB6 to make certain the data had actually been
> changed without defect. He was impressed, but did not want to tell his
> Support Techs on the phone that VFP just kicked their asses in performance,
> as he thought he could lose his job for being uncooperative <g>...
>
I love real world stories like this! I wish there was a site dedicated
only to bringing these kinds of stories to light!!!
> Super-Bastards!
>
Are they re-writing their VB6 (dead longer than VFP!) app in DotNyet?
--
Michael J. Babcock, MCP
MB Software Solutions, LLC
http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com
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