>>Hi Mike,
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>>I've been watching this thread for a while and your one statement here, "375,000 - 500,000 is still a pretty insignificant number in MS eyes ", made me think of a point that doesn't seem to have been stated by anyone yet. The majority of developers in VFP today have come the route of FoxPro or other xBASE languages with a small percentage of new developers. New developers look at all the M$ hype of VB and the non-existent marketing of VFP an decide VB is the way to go - I know I would if I was them. Kind of a chicken and the egg type idea isn't it? M$ puts more into VB than VFP because of the developer base size difference, yet this difference has been caused by M$.
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>>My $0.02 Cdn. worth which is actually worth crap lately :-)
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>Actually, crap can be quite expensive (remembering last batch of 'Fox' contractors we had - doncha just love people hired by people who don't know what the hiree's are supposed to be doing?)
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>(Dragging out soapbox)
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>Again, I think the point that is being missed is that MicroSoft OWNS Fox and can do what they bleedin' well please with it, including turning it into and interactive Internet Dungeons and Dragons game if they wish.



I didn't miss the point and in fact I think you are absolutely correct. I was just stating a simple (and questionably unarguable) fact.

Cheers

Colin Magee
Team Leader, Systems Development
Metroland Media Group Ltd.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

cmagee@metroland.com

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