>>Yes, and your point is ??
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>>You brought up supply and demand - I raised other factors related to supply and demand, namely the substitution factor.
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>You're overcomplicating the matter. It is plainly about supply and demand. Nothing more and nothing less. Whether the demand decreases because of other factors does not matter as long as the supply/demand ratio increases, rates will go up.
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>Walter,


Rates will go up until the people paying the new rates see the capability level of the people left in the VFP World. By that time, most of the experienced, decent VFP developers will have migrated to other platforms, just like most of the Big VFP names of 5 years ago are gone. Then rates will decrease because the only people left are the newbies with nothing to offer or programmers with deprecated skill sets and no options.