>I'm here at Tech Ed also, and spoke with Robert, Randy Brown and Ken Levy about this just yesterday. They were not happy about it and I'm sure will be discussing it with someone in management. We also discussed what I call the Fox teams "stealth marketing" of VFP at Tech Ed. Ken Levy will be giving a session today on moving your apps to three tier and will give a bunch of people a look at VFP who wouldn't normally look at it. The fact that the course title doesn't have any mention of Fox will cause many VB developers to possibly take a look. Also, George Goley will be speaking here tomorrow on "Building the Best Visual Studio Database Applications." You can bet he will be talking Fox and VB. I think you can look for more of this type marketing from the Foxteam.

Glad to hear that!

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>I also sent an email to the clown that gave the "Choosing the right tool" session. I told him he was neglecting a very strong piece of VS and his course title was misleading. I also told him that if VFP was "mission critical" enough for the DOD to develop a defense logistics system for Desert Storm, it surely would handle most businesses needs.
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Let us know what response you get

>As for this whole deal about the continued existence of Fox, I think it will be merged into VB within the next 5 years. If you think about it, they started moving us to VB-like coding with version 3. Much of the coding of VB and VFP now has a very familiar feel anyway. This is not necessarily a bad thing though. I jumped ship on dBase when FoxBase came out because it was twice as fast. If I can use a product that evolves from Fox and gives me more power, what do I care if they call it Visual Widget Builder, VB, or anything else. I'm slowly starting to learn VB, VJ++, VI and all this other stuff that causes me to only get about 4 hours sleep a night.
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I disagree. They will not merge into one product. They are too different. The "merging" of the products will be to use common tools such as report, menu, form designers, but the languages will stay separate.

>John Harvey