Well, it continues to get healthy, feature-rich upgrades and despite your poll, I feel there is more going on out there with VFP than you realize. Is it as prevelant as 5 or 10 years ago? No - but that's not really what I said. I've done much more than maintenance over the last five years. Whenever I don't have enough work, I blame it on my own marketing efforts, not the language.


>I'm curious as to why you think "VFP continues to live a healthy life". A healthy life to me would mean that an article discussing various methods of development would include a discussion of how to prceed with VFP. A healthy life would mean I could send my resume to a recruiter and the response would be "Great, with all this VFP experience we will have no problem placing you". A healthy life would mean that I would have done more then just software maintenance for the last 5 years.
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>And all these things are 100% opposite from the reality I see. I just went to Dice and looked up Foxpro in Los Angeles. 5 hits. Actually 4 since 1 job is posted twice. Well, technically 3 since another is for a QA job. Of the 3 remaining listings we have:
>1) Sql Server DBA with knowledge of Foxpro. The position is to help convert from VFP to C#
>2) Reports developer using SQL Server / Java. Knowing VFP would be nice
>3) The only straight Foxpro listing is for a Foxpro 2.6 Windows position doing maintenance.
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>In Los Angeles, the sale of MGM went thru yesterday and all the corporate work is being transferred to Sony. There were 2 major corps using Foxpro in LA, MGM being one. So we are down to 1 major in the entire city that has a Foxpro team.
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