>That will be temporary. At some point where big companies have to support VFP applications and simply rewriting them is not as simple, they need VFP developpers. Then it becomes a matter of supply and demand. The more people leave VFP, the more work for the others who stay. Even though there will be very little new projects, still systems need to be maintained.
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>For some time now, this general condition has been true - but rates have not gone up across the board. The key question is....why?

Is rates the only measure?
If so, then we all know the answer, and it is outsourcing. Outsourcing is causing local employers to cut wages while extend working time requirements. Outsourcing is causing benefits to be cut drastically. Outsourcing is being used as the excuse (immoral, but who cares) for raiding pension funds.

I guess Walter is still right, because no foreign outsourcing outfit will be interested, in a year or three, in offering VFP services when the "lucrative" .NET market is the thing.



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>Kevin