I think this is still very true today. I think it would behoove VFP folks to learn rather then complain about what they see as missing.

I have a friend who's doing .net today. He was telling his story in trying to hire within the last month or 2. At first they asked for a few years experience with .net, and good qualifications with oop (coding as well as uml). This didn't last too long as the candidates that appears were all asking for 6 figure salaries or close too.

When they lowered their qualifications to 6 months of experience, and dropped the oop requirements, the candidates they were getting were ex VBA/ASP scriptor types. They couldn't answer basic questions about Data Sets, SQL Server, etc.

So I think the market is still very ripe. I'm giving myself 6-9 months to ramp up so I can test the waters.

PF


>If you are talkin to me about being a "scorned prophet" you'll never see me wear that hat. I think the things that I recommended people do a few years ago were right on target. I believe I said something like "you should learn .NET" now while the market is healthy. Do you see some flaw in my recommendation ?
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>Or are you speaking of another "scorned prophet" ? ;>
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>Rodman