>>I used to know Robert pretty well. Have not talked to him in a while.
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>I was always a bit puzzled by the guy. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but he saw VFP's future as a middle tier tool.

Robert completely gave up on VFP long before he went to MSFT. When I worked for him at IMG he'd long since walked away from it.

His job at MS was to parrot the "party line". And it took a toll.