Re: Legacy Applications

From: Mike Mulligan (mmulligan_at_invalid.net)
Date: 08/11/03 

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:41:14 -0400

No one else uses software that is custom written by your IT department, and
no one else is familiar with the source code.

Mike Mulligan

"Devin" <dsmith@Hospicenwo.org> wrote in message
news:080901c36013$1da2a7b0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello, i am currently encountering a problem that is very
> frustrating for me and the rest of our IT department. We
> are working on upgrading all of the computers on our
> network from 98 to XP. The problem we are encountering
> is that nearly all of the programs used by the agency
> were written by members of the IT dept. using FoxPro and
> they were done for 98 originally. Everything runs
> perfectly fine for a user logged in as an administrator,
> but any other user setting (User, Power User, etc...)
> does not allow the program to run correctly. We
> obviously do not want to give admin rights to all 300
> employees that may be logging into the computers but no
> other options seem to let the other users run the
> programs correctly. ANY ideas would be so greatly
> appreciated as we have tried everything we can think of
> to get this working. Thanks ahead of time.