Hiya Mike ---

I work with a large number of VB and VC++ developers and I'm surprised at the number of them who are taking a good, long (and pleasantly surprised) look at VFP with the spread of VS6 betas. In fact, I know a VC++ programmer who is moving his data access to a VFP middletier and a VB programmer who is suddenly proposing that some new projects be done in VFP.

Factor in the good press, and the syncronization of VFP6 and VS6, and the fact that VB6 is more-or-les an incremental upgrade to 5 and I would not be surprised if there is a big jump in interest in VFP and in the number of development projects that are wholly or in part VFP.

>> According to our latest numbers, more than 75% of FoxPro developers in the US are on VFP 5.0. I am sure the numbers are less than that in the rest of the world, but I don't have hard numbers. The 75% is a huge jump over what we saw just a year ago. So I wouldn't assume that the non VFP users are highly unlikely to upgrade.
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>That's pretty encouraging. So, if we take the 75% and multiply it by 500,000 then we're looking at somewhere around 375,000 - without taking into account a lower upgrade % outside of the US. Do you have any figures on what percentage of the users VFP was their first version of FoxPro?
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>> I don't think it is true that non VFP users carry less weight. I guess if they were flat out never planning on moving to Win32 that might be true, but our assumption is that the vast majority will.
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>Good point.