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How big is the VFP community?
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29/03/2007 16:01:29
 
 
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29/03/2007 12:53:25
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Visual FoxPro
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>I am realistic, and i know that MS is making decision based on money.
>The only thing that is sad is that it seems like there is no discussion.
>Why is Foxpro being stopped? Not strategic anymore? No profit?
>It is a short message for people who are working with this software for more than a decade...



Piet,

It wasn't strategic for years. It never made a lot of money for them, compared to their strategic products like VB, NET, SQL Server.
It kept going because of the installed base and the community. But even that had to come to an end at some poitn. It was known and expected for some time. It should come as no surprise to anyone. Thatdoes moean you must learn other languages and jump. It is alweays good to learn other languages/tools, but nobody's pushing you, other than the market.


Alex Feldstein, MCP, Microsoft MVP
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