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Greetings, First of all, appologises for my English but I'm from Barcelona (Catalonia) and is not as good as it should. I don't know if it's the right place to put this question and surely you will have argued about it a lot of times but I'd really appreciate if somebody could help me with that. The matter is that I own a small company dedicated in developing quite small applications for other companies. I've 5 developers working with Visual Basic and the other day, talking with one of them suggested me to move some of our applications to Visual C++, and in order to do that, asked me if he could dedicate more time in improving his knowledge of the language. I'd like to hear a realistic opinion about that, I know the advantages of moving to C++ but I don't know if they really worth the cost because I think that our developing time will increase a lot. We usually work in a three-tier environment and my developers suggested to keep the interface phase in Visual Basic and moving the real program to Visual C++ I don't know if it's possible. Thanks in advance,
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Greetings, First of all, appologises for my English but I'm from Barcelona (Catalonia) and is not as good as it should. I don't know if it's the right place to put this question and surely you will have argued about it a lot of times but I'd really appreciate if somebody could help me with that. The matter is that I own a small company dedicated in developing quite small applications for other companies. I've 5 developers working with Visual Basic and the other day, talking with one of them suggested me to move some of our applications to Visual C++, and in order to do that, asked me if he could dedicate more time in improving his knowledge of the language. I'd like to hear a realistic opinion about that, I know the advantages of moving to C++ but I don't know if they really worth the cost because I think that our developing time will increase a lot. We usually work in a three-tier environment and my developers suggested to keep the interface phase in Visual Basic and moving the real program to Visual C++ I don't know if it's possible. Thanks in advance,
Using VB for the client and C++ for the middle/server tier is a common model. C++ is used for performance, among other goals, but it takes a more knowledgable staff, which of course means higher salaries and hence higher costs. If you have the right talent alot can be done in a short period of time. If, as it seems, you don't have someone of that level, then of course it will effect the time schedule while they learn. Without knowing any details of your project it's hard to make an evaluation about technology. If you trust your team, you should listen to them. On the other hand is this person just wanting to improve his/her skills at your expense then jump to the next higher paid position.