Way back in the FPW days, a VB programmer associate of mine took a look at the Fox IDE, noticed the BEAUTIFY command and joked that Fox developers had it made since the product wrote the code for us. A joke of course, but it was also a (very) simple example of a product whose feature set, speed, and powerful language could surprise other developers not familiar with fox.

I suspect that in 2040, you'll find posts on Michel Jr.'s devforum (located in the Bahamas) that reads "I'm working on an ancient VFP9 SP2 Sedna app running on Vista 5.1..." much like the FPD posts here today. Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for the great work on a great product, and that i believe the fox 'future retirement' (made official now) was handled quite well given the circumstances.

>That said, there was no decision to end VFP core enhancements until fairly recently. As part of that discussion, we decided to open source Sedna at no charge. After that decision, the next question was "should we tell folks"? Note that not many companies do that so openly. The team's reaction was "of course we should" and we stuck to that thru a number of discussions. The next question was when and how do we tell people? With the MVP summit coming up, I felt that telling them in person was the right thing to do. So we hurried to get everything in place (and there's a lot to get in place so we can answer questions about support, the MVP program, etc.). Basically, I've been working over 100 hours a week the past few weeks. I give props to my current manager, Sandy, for letting me put aside much of my regular work to focus on this for a few weeks less than a month before we release four products that I've architected to beta.