I hads LOTS of customers that can't move to Linux because our system (wich is very good BTW) is in VFP
>A single VFP sale leads to tens of thousands of dollars of revenue for MS? I certainly would not have guessed that. Of course there are no numbers they will show us but I find it hard to believe.
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>>>Howeever, Jamie, consider this. If a business is running a VFP app, it means they also have Windows as their OS. It also probably means that they have MicroDoft Office installed. And many VFp apps are using SQL Server as their data store. So, you see, VFP indirectly makes money for Microsoft on other things < s >.
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>>Agreed, this is an exchange I had with Ken L several years ago
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>>Hello Ken,
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>>VERY glad to hear that, thanks for the reply
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>>Bob
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>>>> PS: How about a comment on my post explaining that Visual FoxPro keeps me in MS products (servers, desktop, office, etc) and that a single Visual FoxPro purchase actually generates 10's of thousands of dollars of revenue for MS
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>>>This is already known within Microsoft, from the Visual FoxPro team to senior executives.
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