>>Piet,
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>>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.
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>It's their own fault if it did not make a lot of money for them. They deliberately kept it in the background, and did little to promote it. They kept it going only for the existing Foxpro users.
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>It was never really given a sporting chance at being properly marketed to the public. Very few microsoft staff around the world even knew what it was.
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>Indirectly, I believe that Foxpro was responsible for a lot of sales of other microsoft products. Bean counters at microsoft probably never took this into account.



You are correct. But as it was not strategic and I have to assume they did not want, nor cared to invest in marketing to acomplish that.
It's their business decision even though it's not what you or I would have preferred.