>The con-artists I was referring to were the card carrying VFP consultants that use to prey on late eighties and early nineties project "buyers" in America. It continued - so it seemed - right up till almost 2000.

>The "artists" were consultants who know enough about VFP to build a table and show a browse window. They would charge 10's of thousands of dollars to deliver a "browse" window solution. I got a lot of work cleaning up after these guys. I listened to the "users" plain. Some actually thought (or wanted to belive) that that the reason they got burned was not because of the consultant - but because that was all VFP could do - browse windows.

You wouldn't believe how many of such guys we had, in our small town of just 80,000 people (and we have at least three Fox shops, mostly companies I founded or ones spun off of these). Though these artists wouldn't necessarily do browse windows all the time; they had to imitate what we had on the market, so they all had menus, and used at least what framework came with Fox.

But we had to hate/love these guys. Hate them, because they took the customers in front of our nose, and loved them, because within a year these customers would come to us and wouldn't ask about the price :).