>>Hey Walter, long time...
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>>Not made anymore? Ok, but what if it was no longer supported? Then no, I wouldn't buy this car.
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>In this respect cars and software are different animals. Cars need maintenance every x thousand kilometers. Software does not, or only if the environment changes which causes it to malfunction.
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>What I was trying to say here is that things don't drastically change when a manufacturer stops producing a car or new versions of a software product. You know that when your car or software outdates and you really need something more modern you'll have to look into something else.
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>To me, the message last week was unpleasant, but neither a shock or something that causes me to panic. Is .NET my next development platform? Maybe, maybe not. I'll have to see what I'll be doing in 5 years time. Hopefully I won the lotery and I'll be laughing at those silly discussions where people are fighting holy wars on what the best development platform/language is.
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>For now, I just have to maintain a big VFP project that has just began its life cycle.

Will it be supported until 2015? ;-)