Not being argumentative or anything but isn't that sort of a special case? A company that stays with Windows and Office just to run one Windows app? Most shops are still Windows despite the tiny bites of market share Linux and Apple have. Those places would be using Windows and Office whether they had a custom FoxPro app or not.


>It's easy to see this...
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>My boss hates MS, has been pushing to get away from them for years. We have already moved our file servers (mostly) to Linux, and would have moved our desktops also, except for Foxpro. Since Foxpro won't leagally run on a Linux box, it is keeping us in MS Desktops
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>XP Pro (200) * 40 = 8000
>Office XP (300) * 40 = 12000
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>And thats one small company for one product update cycle. The next cycle will by MS also, for the same reason.
>Bob
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>>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.