I dont know what is more pathetic - the never ending "VFP is dead" posts, that we have had to endure for 7+ years, or hiding behind fake names to pronounce them.


>The last version of FoxPro has been announced.
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>VFP 9
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>If that wasn't clear, go read the End of Life announcement that KL wrote last month.
>It was as kind as possible.
>Really.
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>Fox has been put on the same hospice care reserved for the dying.
>Make it comfortable by increased interop, but no attempts at any improvements in its condition.
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>If you speak of its condition in front of it, like KL finally had to, please be so obscure so that the fox will not understand its condition. Ken is so clumsy at double speak that he ends up saying almost nothing. Of course, wink, nudge, anyone with their eyes open can easily see its condition.
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>Dying from lack of revenue.
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>It just did not stand a chance against go-getters like SQL Server's per seat revenue.
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>Even Access has a better revenue story. Any access app that is successful will eventually need to be rescued from the misreable Access engine, and the cheapest rescue is to move to SQL server.
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>Fox's imminent death is not a surprise to anyone.
>Its life support systems (User Groups) have been shutting down for some time.
>Finally, the family decided that it was time to go, and food (64 bit support, breaking the 2 gig limit, advertising) was withheld. The family denies it, but there is a lot of talk that it was even deprived of oxygen (good press stories were ACTIVELY discouraged)
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>There is some hope that some of its organs can be transplanted to other products.
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>RIP