Bruce Gilham Jr.
Dead · support ended January 2015

FoxPro. Yes, still. Someone has to open it.

Where you are

Visual FoxPro 9 left extended support in January 2015 and it was the last version. It is still holding data in publishing, accounting and small manufacturing shops, usually in the same building as the one person who knows how to open it.

How the move goes

I moved a chart-data publisher's FoxPro archive and book-generation tools onto Azure SQL, and kept the FoxPro tools running against the new database until their replacements were ready. The data comes out first; the tools follow.

Other platforms

Dead · support ended October 2021

Your Silverlight app has no browser to run in. The code still says what it does.

Dead · retired with Visual Studio 2015

LightSwitch generated your app. You cannot regenerate it, but you can read it.

Dying · no new development since 2000

Classic ASP still runs. No debugger, no tests, and it is your problem now.

Dying · VB6 IDE unsupported since 2008

The VB6 runtime still ships with Windows. The IDE and the developers are gone.

Orphaned · the developers are retiring

Delphi is alive. Your Delphi 5 codebase, on components that no longer compile, is not.

Orphaned · HCL owns it; nobody is hiring for it

Your records are in Notes databases. Someone has to read the Notes data model to get them out.