On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:11 -0500, "Bill Arnold" <[email protected]> wrote: > But events like this, if they slip unnoticed, can be a harbinger of a > cloud > on VFP's horizon: the prospect that MS would make a change that would > break > running VFP9 applications.
I don't see it happening before the end of the stated support life of VFP9, but after that it's anyone's guess. You can see the erosion already with Windows Server 2008. If you're running a network VFP application with shared data on a Windows 2008 Server box, you may need to do the usual thing and turn off Opportunistic Locking to get it to behave and stop throwing file access and locking errors. But you can't do that on 2008/7/Vista without first turning off the new SMB2 network transport on the server* and making it use the older SMB. Fine, except doing that has potentially serious performance implications for the network and I can see certain network admins not allowing it. It won't be *bang* VFP9 doesn't work anymore, it'll be like what happened with FoxPro for Windows and DOS - death by a thousand cuts. *we may end up with the curious situation where a Linux server running Samba will actually work better for this than a Windows Server box. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
