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General:
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What is the main business of your organization?
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Are the applications you want to modernize a part of your core business?
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How many man-years of development efforts were invested into the first major release of your applications?
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For how long are the applications in maintenance after the first major release? How many man-years of development efforts were invested into the maintenance?
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Why do you want to move from the current platform?
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Technical Information:
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What Delphi versions are in use?
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What is the total size of your applications ( in Mbytes, total for all the files of your applications )?
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What types of Delphi applications are in use ( MDI, VCL forms, DLL etc. )?
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Are Delphi applications used in client-server or thin client environments?
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What 3-rd party frameworks (VCLs etc.) do you use?
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Do you have source code for those 3-rd party components?
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Are there parts of code written in low-level languages? If so, what is their purpose and how big they are ( in MBytes )?
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What is the total number of forms?
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Are there modal forms and dialogs? How many?
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What is the total number of menus?
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What is the total size ( in MBytes ) of your code files ( .pas, .inc etc. )?
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Are there external programs called from your application? If so, what are their nature ( custom written business logic, MS Office, communication etc. ) and how your Delphi applications communicate with these external programs?
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What tools are used for building and presenting reports in your applications?
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How many reports are in all your applications?
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Do your applications use Delphi's graphics features? If so, how intensive?
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Do your applications use Delphi's multimedia features? If so, how intensive?
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What database ( and how many databases ) do you use?
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What is the number of tables in all your databases?
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What is the number of views in all your databases?
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What is the number of stored procedures and functions in all your databases?
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Is the database accessed directly from the application or via a middleware? If so, what middleware is used and how the Delphi applications communicate with the middleware?
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What will be your server-side environment ( operation system, database, application server etc. )?
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What will be your network topology ( central location, local offices, communication lines etc. )?
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What is your estimation for the overall quantity of end-users?
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How many end-users will work with the application simultaneously?
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Modernization Project:
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What is your desired schedule for the project?
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Can your application be divided into independent parts, which can be modernized one after another?
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How the source application is supposed to be maintained during the project?
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Additional notes
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