>>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>His job at MS was to parrot the "party line". And it took a toll.
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>You worked with him more closely than I did so I will defer. But it wasn't my impression that he had given up on VFP. He just felt there were other decent tools in the world as well.

Yeah, well, remember the context. Always remember the context.

As a partner in a consulting firm with ongoing development in VFP (such as it was) he was obligated to say certain things in public. As an employee of the firm, I heard different things.

Did you know we had internal (after-hours) training in Access and VB for all the VFP guys?