>Nice article today on us "hardcore" types and the longevity of VFP by Ray Ozzie of RedmondMag.com. Here's an excerpt and link:
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>FoxPro Lives!
>I spent years covering databases for InfoWorld and Computerworld, and perhaps the liveliest market of all was FoxPro. Originally a dBase clone, it grew to outshine the Ashton-Tate tool and was eventually bought by Microsoft.
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>I even spent a week in Orlando at a FoxPro user group, and boy, those folks were hardcore. Some looked like they hadn't left their keyboard in a decade!
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>Microsoft tried to kill off FoxPro in favor of both Access and SQL Server, but users never let 'em.
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>So what is Microsoft to do? Build a brand-new version that's .NET 2.0-compliant and works with Visual Studio. With this kind of tweaking, I'd give FoxPro another 10 years, at least!
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>http://redmondmag.com/reports/article.asp?EditorialsID=444


As Al pointed out, that column was by Doug Barney, not Ray Ozzie. (You know who Ray Ozzie is, right?). Also, the last paragraph was Barney's suggestion, not a description of what Microsoft is actually doing. If Sedna will be ".NET 2.0-compliant" that is news to me.