Why Semplice will not displace VB6
Wednesday, 31 May 2006
I saw the announcement of Semplice. Like lots of other VB6 shops we have a large base of VB6 code that we are not planning to migrate to .Net, simply because there is too much testing effort involved.
I dig Sun. But honestly , Semplice would at least be as unattractive as VB.net, since …
- We have to move to an unsupported version of VB6, which itself has all sorts of unspecified / quirky behaviour according to the VB7.net team.
- The testing effort will still be there. The code base dates from early 90s (when it was developed in VB3 on Windows 3.0), we do not have enough testing resources to retest a major migration
- We use tonnes of third party ActiveX components, which Java will not be supporting natively (Remember the J# hoo-haa a decade ago?
