Thanks for all you've done for FoxTalk, David. You played a pivotal role in the transition from FoxTalk to FoxTalk 2.0, for which I feel safe in saying all of us in the VFP community are grateful. Under your editorship FoxTalk continued to be a "high-class technical journal" (as you phrased it in your inaugural editorial nineteen months ago) and I'm certain it has a bright future in Rainer's capable hands.


>Foxtalk will have a new editor, beginning with the upcoming December issue, and I'm happy to announce that Rainer Becker is the man for the job.
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>While I have immensely enjoyed my "tour of duty" for the past nineteen issues, an overloaded personal and work schedule have made it increasingly difficult to devote the time and focus to FoxTalk that its readers and publisher deserve. It is with mixed feelings that I step aside and "pass the torch" to the next editor. The fact that I am swamped with VFP development work is a good thing, but it means that I cannot do everything that I would like to do. I am confident that Rainer will continue FoxTalk's long-standing tradition of providing the community with top-notch advanced technical articles.
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>Rainer is well-known internationally as a leader in the FoxPro community, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, a successful businessman, leader of the large dFPUG user group, publisher of a quarterly European FoxPro magazine, organizer of the legendary German Visual FoxPro Conference, and an all-around good guy! He knows all of the top VFP authors and speakers and has an extensive network of European authors who will supplement the team of writers that you are accustomed to seeing in Foxtalk.
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>I have complete confidence in Rainer's ability and commitment to provide FoxTalk's readers with the very best technical content, and I foresee a bright future for FoxTalk under his leadership. You'll be able to hear more about this editor transition in the next few installments of Andrew MacNeill's TheFoxShow podcasts. Andrew's interview with me will go online right away, to be followed soon by an interview with Rainer (http://www.thefoxshow.com).
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>It has truly been a privilege to work with a long list of top authors who over the past year and a half have shared their wisdom in print as we re-launched the newsletter as FoxTalk 2.0. To all of you in the following list of all-star authors from May, 2004 to November, 2005, I extend my heartfelt thanks: Doug Hennig, Andy Kramek, Marcia Akins, Ted Roche, Cathy Pountney, Ken Levy and the Microsoft VFP Team, Rick Borup, Randy Pearson, Lauren Clarke, Walter Nicholls, Dragan Nedeljkovich, Rick Hodder, Anatoliy Mogylevets, Pradip Acharya, Dave Bernard, Rick Strahl, Art Bergquist, Mark Vroom, Lisa Slater Nicholls, Craig Boyd, Colin Nicholls and Bo Durban.
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>I urge the community to give your full support to Rainer as he takes the torch and runs like a Fox!