>>I small shop client I once had, requested a simple inventory system. When I suggested VFP, he frown. I then ask if C++ would be more to his liken, and answered "Well, Yes". I then noted to him that VFP is written in C++. And he responded with an "Oh, Ok".
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>>Another time, I built a medical software in VFP 6.0, but told the clients that it was written in Visual Studio (well it did have a COM object written in VB).
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>It was really bad when the university system released a bunch of recently minted VB cube warriors to save the internet infra-structure and do batlle with dreaded Y2K terror. Hive sardines, bred and born to fear, were sucking ATMs dry and making plans for Judgement day as they imagined withering away in trains stopped on tracks while watching MSNBC HardBall reruns 24/7. Anything to move them SQL licenses:-)
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>At least we have the marshals service to put them out of their misery now.
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>You know it - I know it - the world of cheap outsourced design services has soured in it's own milk: Marc Andreessen's mind. ... "The Law of Crappy People kicks in because the worst employee at any level becomes the de facto standard for that level."
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>The prospects (our future customers) are smarter and leaner now. They know the cost of doing business under the Y2K modle is stupid. They want problem solvers, not mindless draftees. And yet, the tool vendors are still blowin in the wind!

ROTFL