And what's so special about you which makes you think that you have the right to receive a personal answer? Do you really want Yair to repeat what he has told all of us, but this time only to you? Yair has been more open and honest than we can expect. Oh boy, you are pathetic, Peter!

>It is not my habit to publicly publish a 'private message' on the UT. But this time I do it anyway. Below you'll find the full text of a private message to Alan Griver, sent the 20th of this month, so 9 days ago. As to my knowledge Alan has not been present here since that day, the reason unknown to me. There are two arguments that I bring in to legitimize this publication.
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>1) The message does not contain any confidential or personal statements.
>2) The reply, with hopefully the reasons I ask for, is required now, rather than next month. It is an urgent issue in my perception.
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>I really wonder where Alan is now and how he's coping. (I noticed Jim Saunders has been online today for the first time since many months. Maybe he can shed light here.)
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>I really hope someone (else) from MS realizes that the request is serious enough and requires an appropriate, official response. I'm not, no longer, interested in all suggestive speculations and inner circle knowledge and smalltalks. I need the official statement.
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>Alan,
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>Last week I invited you to mention the reasons that led to the decision to not further develop Visual FoxPro. You have indeed replied, focusing on 'Visual FoxPro no longer being a strategic product' and on the how and when. The drive behind my reaction (see: Re: For what reasons? Thread #1204097 Message #1204251) was that, to me, 'not a strategic product' is a conclusion rather than a reason. So, I asked again.
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>No reaction on your part has been given sofar. I assumed that you were on a long weekend. Today I saw you reply to several others, so you're back. Because it may also be the case that you missed my reply, I send you this private mail.
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>I understand that the decision was made only some weeks ago in some meetings about what would be the next thing after Sedna. And the outcome might also eventually have been a continuation. There must have been used arguments in those meetings that can be called reasons. And 'not being a strategic product' cannot possibly have been the only argument, because that argument was also mentioned before versions 9, 8 and 7, at least. I'm primarilly interested in rational reasons. (Unless there were only irrational reasons, of course.)
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>One reason why I/we need those reasons, is because clients will gonna ask about the discontinuation. I have read almost all posts, and I have some hunches as to the reasons, but most of them are not from official MS people. I do not want to speculate.
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>And yes, there is one more reason why I want to know. I need it for my decision to either stick with an MS development product/platform or to choose for an open source product/platform. Hope you respect that motive.
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>I understand you had a hard time last week. Sorry to hear that. I think Jim Booth already gave some good advice. It is indeed important to keep the head cool and the heart beart low. :)
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>Think of my request as one done by a journalist. What would the spokesman of MS say to a journalist in an interview, when asked for what reasons development of Visual FoxPro was stopped. And let's assume that the journalist is not a Microsoft-basher.