And that probably deserves some applauses to Kevin.

I know of many that once they get on a new yacht never want to come back in their old long-boat <vbg>


>As a long-time MM user I have some definate thoughts about that...
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>Kevin may not have jumped ship completely; he's just sailing a new one. VFP is the little dingy he tows behind. And that's the way it is...
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>>>And so maybe it would help out if Kevin, Marcus, et al, would evangelize for a great language like VFP instead of just jumping ship.
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>>Isn't there about to be a new release of MereMortal for VFP? That's not jumping ship, right?
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>>>>Hello Russell,
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>>>>I think that Kevin and EPS is trying to offer this community an opportunity away to transition from VFP to .Net and get in on the ground floor.
>>>>The real question is if you are working now, great, but when the .Net marketing machine finally gets into your work place or where you are consulting are you still going to have a job in the future?
>>>>Just to give another perspective on the VFP to .Net conversion, I have worked with VFP for over 15 years. The last company I worked for the owner decided that all new development would be in .Net. There where no technical reasons to switch to .Net. The owner being a sales man decided to go this way based on the information provided by Microsoft (The .Net sales pitch) and that VFP was a legacy application (There word not mine).
>>>>The fact that Microsoft has not marketed VFP outside the VFP technical and non-technical community has assisted in this decision. The owners statement is what else is there? Here is an great example of the power of VFP marketing approach.
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>>>>Andy