For me, it's got nothing to do with weather I need it or not. It's just a state of business. If you lost your job today, how readily could you find another foxpro gig in Montreal? For me, in Los Angeles, it would at minimum take a lot longer then I could afford to be unemployeed.

I know there are 3 places in Los Angeles that have a large investment in foxpro programs. The place I'm on contract at now, MGM and Countrywide:

1) Where I'm at now, all the foxpro apps are in maintenance mode. They are scheduled to be replaced.
2) MGM was sold to Sony. MGM's IT department is on life support until their apps are ported over to Sony's system. I doubt very highly that Sony will keep MGM's foxpro app's in foxpro
3) Countrywide - There is a big movement there to rewrite apps in .net. There are 2 divisions I'm aware of. One was VB and Java based. They are making a big investment in .net. The Java guys are happy cause even Java guys admit that .net is superior to Java for desktop apps. I have a friend who started out there as a VB guy. He's really happy with what he's learning. And he's not complaining about not being able to get his work done either. And amazingly enough he does data all day long, just like us. Without complaints.

So basically, I would expect in another year, there will be very little foxpro development at the only 3 places that are doing a lot of foxpro development in Los Angeles today.

You made a comment about Foxpro in the enterprise. You completely missed the mark. I don't think foxpro has had a place in the "enterprise" for the last 5 years.

PF




>>But the bottom line is, the one thing I don't see, is anyone returning to the UT. No one is making a post that states something like "Gee I'm glad this place is still here. I couldn't get what I wanted to work in .Net, Java, PHP, whatever....". This tells me, along with what I've heard by talking to friends, that other languages work.
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>>I'm sure that if you worked for a bigger company that offered to pay a couple thousand for your continued education, you'd be whistling a different tune. But, once again, this is the nature of the beast that is called IT.
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>IF another product was available and IF the price was right and IF I had to use it and IF...
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>With all those if it's possible to justify or explain everything.
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>Right now I don't need .Net but because of the way MS is force-feeding it I know I'll be forced to let go of VFP... eventually
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>We'll see in june what MS will say.