>Hiya Mike ---
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>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.
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>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.
Sounds optimistic John... I would agree with you...
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>>> 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.
JESS S. BANAGA
Project Leader - SDD division
...shifting from VFP to C#.Net
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