>>>Uh oh, this is a troubling post....this really gets people reved up...
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>>>I think for VFP's longevity it needs to at least work with .NET and it will with Sedna. I've been using the Fox with .NET web services and its been great. I dont think it will ever become VFP.NET just because of its native database and reporting, unless M$ dumps that stuff.....
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>>>My theory is that once .NET gets the cursor engine that VFP has, which I beleive the Fox Team is working on......I dont think there will be anymore additions to VFP.
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>>>As to .NET failing, sure it has its shortcomings but with a team of a 1000 developers working on it, and only 10 working on VFP i dont see it failing, also considering the amount of marketing M$ puts into it.
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>>MS has invested too much already in .Net. It'll succeed no matter what they have to do.
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>I wonder what would have happened if they had poured that much money into BOB ????

I wonder it BOB is really considered a dead product? Perhaps it's kept lying around somewhere and could revive as a .net tool someday?

One of the biggest drawback of BOB is that there were too many levels and too slow machines for that concept.

At that time we had 386 machines (if I remember correctly) and then there was BOB on top of Windows 3.1 on top of DOS. Now with the beasts that we have (soon 4 gig) those levels would'nt be that big a deal.