Hi Fred, thanks for the reply.
I have already contacted old clients (those that are still in business), but unfortunately they have either gone the 'off the shelf' route (ie. don't use bespoke software any more), or moved-over to .NET, which is a route which I don't want to follow. Still, at least I've let them know what I am doing now and you never know where word-of-mouth may lead. I tried C# for a while, but after Foxpro it appeared to me to be such a horrible, clunky language. Then I discovered Python about a year ago and have loved it ever since.
Regards, Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 17/01/2011 16:13, Sells, Fred wrote:
Since you were burned by Microsoft dropping foxpro, I suspect many others were also. I would contact all my old clients and see how they are coping and tell them you've been converting FoxPro to *xyz* and can help them (assuming of course that you have done some of this). If they don't have anything, ask them for leads contacts. Trying to get a job "cold" is much more difficult than if you have a referral.
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