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>How much more evidence do you need to see that VFP is NOT in a growing market?
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On what do you base that? I'm seeing more job offers, better press reviews. I don't think a blanket statement one way or the other can be made for the next 12-18 months or so. I've personally seen two dyed-in-the-wool VB developers suddenly go gung-ho on VFP after looking at VS6 betas.

I think you're position on this is weaker now than it was 6 mos. ago. But I think it's still too soon to tell. I can think of no earthly reason why MS would want to kill off such a versatile, OOP tool like VFP with 500,000 developers.

>If a market is not growing - it is dying. Thats not to say that folks should not continue to use VFP - people should not only use VFP - they should upgrade to 6 because of the better COM support/ADO/MTS, etc. People should be taking time now to use thier VFP knowledge to acquire skills in other areas: VB/VJ/VI, etc.

I do not disagree with the fact that VFP developers should have other skills. But I think all VS developers should be at least conversant with one or more of the other tools. It's bad to be a monolithic programmer in any language. But, as I replied to Mike Feltman on another sub-thread, *maybe* VFP people should become more acquainted with the data side (SQL Server, Oracle). After all, VB developers are a dime-a-dozen while good DBAs are priceless.