I know there are many who do not even know about the existance of VFP. But in many cases it is because the company they worked for used VFP many years ago and completly transitioned to another tool before that person started there.

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>>Once again I get back to one of my original points. If .Net is unfinished business, especially since it's missing these critical features that are found in VFP, why are so many folks developing in .Net today? And why are so few developing in VFP?
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>Just this friday on my way home on the bus I talked with somebody that was reading a huge book on ASP.Net. I told him that I was working with VFP. He told me that he knew about the existence of VFP but he did'nt know what it was doing.
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>As I said many times before. This is not surprising but deceiving.
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>When you don't know about something then perhaps it's because it's not good enough. It's not even worth the energies needed to promote it.
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>So why would anybody (enterprise) in his right mind want to develop with it.
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>>Both the VB6 department and VFP department are converting to .Net. This means they were convinced that there is something to gain by switching to .Net. As a banking type company they are typically conservative when it comes to making tech decisions. Yet they were convinced its okay to change.
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>MS has its ways of convincing enterprises. Over the years superior technologies did'nt make it because of bad marketing. When MS puts all the weight needed to push something usually they'll succeed.
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>To make .Net the "Thing" they have to push it to the big shops first. After that the word of mouth will operate as expected.
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>My business can still work with VFP. When needed we can still have access to VFP developers. So until VS.Net is where we'd like it to be we have the luxury of working with VFP. When the timing is right then we'll switch to .Net. We won't switch to .Net because others tell us it's time to do it.
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>If others think that .Net is good enough then I'm glad for them but to me it's no there yet <g>