>>Also, in 1959 and many decades thereafter, computer technology was immature. Mistakes were made and many times new conventions had to be decided on. For sake of growing more mature, we had to abandon old technologies to give way to new technologies. We now live in 2007 and the industry has grown more mature. Viable, mature technologies have emerged. VFP (while not the ultimate devtool, I admit) is one of them, in my eyes. I can understand a company that decides to kill a product if it comes to the inevitable conclusion that the product sucks in essential ways and is not easy to repair and prepare for the future. So, I asked YAG for the real reasons, but he has not yet taken the time to give the answers.
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>The real reason is spelled M-O-N-E-Y...
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>I've worked with enough businesses to know there's only one thing that counts$$$$$$$
So, that's what drives you too, being the owner of a company? All other reasons you have mentioned to your clients, your friends and yourself are not real, right? Because there is only one real reason: money.
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