Alex Gay (10/7/2015)
The problem was after that many years we only had three members of staff who could program Clipper well enough to provide support, and they were the IT Director, Head of IT and Head of Information. Which would mean that upgrades or bug fixes would cost too much, and be nearly impossible to schedule. I'm not even sure that the compiler would install on a modern OS.There comes a time when, no matter how popular a piece of software, that you have to replace it.
True. But whether early replacement or later, there always seems to be issues. The improvements are new so additional training is needed. There are things that don't work as well (or don't exist at all) in the new code that worked in the old so animosity exists. The best adopters are the new employees and those you have chosen as your "Champions" for the new software, those that you have allowed to participate from beginning to end with the development. As to operating system upgrades, we do them as seldom as possible to avoid the required rewrite of some code. Yes, we're still on 2008 R2. Maybe I'll be retired before we switch.