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>>>>>Actually I have no complaints about that. I didn't deserve to be an MVP any more. It was a nice run of five or six years, whatever it was, and I still use some of the trinkets (watch, clock, suitcase, leather notepad binder). It would be nice to have that MSDN Universal subscription back, though....
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>>>>The MSDN universal was my fav thing, but most of the gifts I gave away. What I really enjoyed was getting to meet with the Foxteam and the other MVPs and feeling my feedback really counted and having the inside scoop on what was going on.
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>>>>That said, it scared the crap out of me in 2001 (I think) when I met the Foxteam and realized how small it was.
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>>>The first time I met them was when VFP 3.0 -- not even called that yet -- was under development. It was a good sized team at the time. I don't know the exact count but there had to have been at least 30 or 40 people on the team. Calvin was still an independent. As were YAG, Lisa Slater, Randy Brown, and Ken Levy. Tom Rettig was still alive and feisty. Eric Rudder, the project leader, is now very near the top of the Microsoft org chart. Lisa Brummel, then the liaison to FoxPro communities such as the FoxForum, is now VP of Human Resources at Microsoft. Anyone who says MS bought Fox just to pimp out Borland / dBASE doesn't know how much effort they put into VFP 3. That was a Change Everything project.
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>No! I had not even heard of FoxPro until 2.0 came out to rave reviews. It just so happened I wanted to transition from the mainframe world to PCs and did a quick benchmark study that assured me you could not only port a mainframe app to the PC, it would actually run faster. That was a revelation. My mainframe buddies razzed me about it for some time. "Will my program really run on that little toy computer? Oh no!"

I didn't start until Sept 1994 with FoxPro 2.6 for DOS. I would have order the Windows version, but the Microsoft telephone support guy wasn't sure if the code from FoxPro 2.5 DOS would work with Windows well. Arg what an idiot.

I remember being in awe when Tamar answered one of my posts on Compuserve. Why would a celebrity do that?