I wish CodeGear would buy it. :o)


>>>>>If MS is dropping VFP then they see no value in it's future. If it has no value, can we have the source code? This great community must not be disolved.
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>>>>>VFP is the best development platform I have ever used. I'm sure it can be adjusted to fit any future OS. I have to ask, what prompted their decision to destroy it?
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>>>>For many years VFP generated revenues mostly for application developers while MS part was negligible comparing with their mainstream tools. Basically, pure VFP development gave too much comfort to both developer and customer and not too many advantages for software vendor.
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>>>So, as long as the MS bottom line is okay, they don't give a poop about us?
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>>Certainly, MS is entitled to make a business decision.
>>I would look at this in retrospective: it was good 12 years of VFP development, and some more ahead. Recollect early 90s, and look where other products, that were comparable with Foxpro, stand now. I mean Clipper, Paradox, Dbase, and even PowerBuilder and Delphi. We got a good opportunity and it lasted long enough.
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>And, as you say, it isn't over yet. VFP 9 is a perfectly good tool even if there will be no VFP 10.