There is hope for you after all. You're beginning to see the light <vbg>.



>>> I note today that one poster said VFP 9 sales were up.
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>>Just to clarify (which I already did in that thread.). The reseller you refer to is FoxToolbox.com, and they referred to their sales of VFP 9.0 as a reseller. They do not speak for the sales of VFP 9.0 world-wide for Microsoft which has little to do and often no relation to one reseller's sales of a product.
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>Not sure if your moderation is concentrated on this thread only but thank you. Thank you for what seems to be a preparation over what's coming.
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>I don't see no other way to explain what to me seems like a weird behavior from somebody in charge of marketing for a product that could me on its last major version.
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>How else could it be explained? Some have said that according to what they heard sales of VFP9 are doing good. You came to tell to not get too excited. I would've expected something like "Yes sales are doing good and we at MS hope that the present trend will increase blah blah blah..."
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>So to me those warnings are probably there to prepare us before the worst news.
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>Here's what my crystal ball told me.
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>1) First, BIG BAD NEWS for the VFP community: "There won't be a VFP 10".
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>2) But there are so many ways to make a MAJOR BAD ANNOUNCEMENT look like it's not so bad after all.
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>3) It could be something like "There won't be a VFP 10. To some this could be interpreted as very bad news. But in the coming weeks we will release a service pack. A service pack that will not only fix bugs but will also contain additions to VFP. From that point new VERY COOL things will be added to VFP on a regular base. After thorough analysis of the state of VFP and from the fedback that we received we came to the conclusion that there were not enough requests to justify a new major version. That does'nt mean that the evolution of VFP will stop..." followed by more explanations telling us why in fact this if good news.
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>I would like to be the firt to thank you guys for that wonderful tool that I've been able to use and probably will continue to use for a while.