Ozfox 2007…
I attended OzFox 2007 last week, good location, great speakers and fantastic sessions.
Craig Bailey did a great job (as usual) in organizing the conference. Peter Metcalf and Talman Admin / Tech staff (Nicole, Elle, Luis, Bing ) were the back bone of the conference.
Some key outputs from the conference:
- Reporting enhancements
- Sedna CTP -2
- Exchanging common business ideas
over all, great 3 days of VFP and related stuff.
There were around 40-45 attendees at the conference and as usual, it was difficult to find one person who was not worried about state of his / her existing application (except the speakers and Talman group ).
There were quiet a few interactive sessions which ended up with discussions on issues like:
- What should be done about our VFP applications
- What’s the future of VFP
- Competitors taking marketing / sales advantage with use of new tools
- Difficult to find / maintain VFP resources
- Microsoft not doing much to enhance VFP to next level
- Clients happy with existing application but worried about future investments
and….it goes on….
My suggestions / answers to all such related issues:
- There are a lot of companies / consultants still consulting for VFP
- Not difficult to identify and outsource work to such companies/ consultants (provided cost justified)
- VFP still has a good 5-7 years of life left, which according to me is enough time to plan out migration to new development tool (if required)
- VFP community is still largely active
- All the good things have to come to an end some day
And before I forget here is something special from Feng Zeng, a video on OzFox 2007
Would be interesting to see how OzFox 2008 goes…..looking forward to it.
March 3, 2007
· Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Talman news, Visual Foxpro
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