>>>>>Jamie,
>>>>>
>>>>>>MS has finally come out and officially stated what we all knew, VFP9 is the last official version.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://blogs.msdn.com/yag/archive/2007/03/13/message-to-the-vfp-community.aspx
>
>I wonder if this will have the effect of lowering the price of the frameworks and other toolkits available for VFP development. Maybe I will soon be able to afford Visual MaxFrame and supported other tools. ;)
>
>I dread going to learn VB, C# plus other data engines without first having full understanding and experience in Visual FoxPro.


LOL

Good question. Judging by what happens to prices related to languages such as COBOL, I would expect a different effect ;-)

Which is probably also good news for those of us who choose to remain in VFP in some capacity. A few years down the road, VFP skills may be hard to get by and thus make some people good money. We already see that today at EPS, where we are always (right now for instance) looking for VFP people (although we always need VFP and .NET skills). Good VFP people are hard to find...


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