Bruce Gilham Jr.
Dead · support ended January 2015

FoxPro. Yes, still. The data comes out first.

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 I get you off it

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, each one switched over when its replacement is proved.

Other platforms

Dead · support ended October 2021

Silverlight has no runtime left. The exit is screen by screen, not a rewrite.

Dead · retired with Visual Studio 2015

LightSwitch generated your app. The tooling to regenerate it is gone.

Dying · no new development since 2000

Classic ASP still runs. That is the problem.

Dying · VB6 IDE unsupported since 2008

The VB6 runtime survives on Windows. The developers do not.

Orphaned · the developers are retiring

Delphi is alive. Your Delphi 5 codebase is not.

Orphaned · HCL owns it; nobody is hiring for it

Your records are in Notes databases. Getting them out is the job.