Hi Mike!

Yes you haven't seen much of me here in the last few years. Fact of the matter I haven't done a lot of forum stuff since Foxforum went away (that makes me old!). These days it looks like Naomi, Sergei, Tore, Nick, Cathy and a few others are doing a great job. I remember how much time it took to become an MS VFP based on Foxforum participation, and thanks to them for keeping it up.

I still make my living supporting 3 very loyal clients, who keep me very well fed. One is in the phone business (very complex and under NDA) with a C# Dot Net web site and VFP 9 Customer Admin app. Sesond is a company in the insurance business that I share with Dan Greenberg. All sorts of pieces there - VFP GUI app, couple of .Net web apps, Sybase database, etc. Third is the local health dept, not much money there but at least they do something good for average citizens.

I am at about 50% VFP / 50% .NET in terms of income, rapidly shifting to the .Net side.

We had a successful VFP users group here in Denver for about 13 years, but in the last year attendance got down to 5 of so per meeting. I know that other groups have had the same problem. Suddenly tonight we had about 12 people based on the VFP death notice and my promise to talk about Sedna.

Plus a presentation by a member who just completed a 4 month $350K, 5 programmer project to convert a FP 2.5 DOS app to run under VFP 9, only because they had to get off DOS to get all their stuff to work under XP. It was one of those horror stories of 700+ fxp's, 18,000+ dbf's (yes!), hundreds of .frx's, and of course no complete source code left by the developers. Glad I don't have to accept those projects any more!



>>And of course the most obvious reason MS will never sell VFP - an enhanced and fully-supported VFP would steal a lot of the GUI database market away from MS!
>
>
>Now there is a name I haven't seen in a while. How's life, old buddy?