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>>Here we are again: the signs. I have paid attention to 'the signs'. But the fact is that all OFFICIAL statements were denials of those signs. And I paid more attention to the official statements. But indeed, it appears afterall that I may not have done some of my clients a good job by sticking to the official statements.
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>>You might call me naive, but it may also be the case that in fact I have been more trusting towards MS than all those MS defenders here, who preferred the signs rather than the official statements.
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>Peter,
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>Perry (and other MS defenders) will never understand what you and other VFP developers have to deal with. They are are highly paid consultants. They work on the hourly basis and love these long-term projects: converting from VFP or just simply writing .net apps. The more hours the better <g>. Roy Gutierrez described the situation very well. Upgrading a vertical market application from VFP will put a lot of people out of business.

For those who do not yet have a good idea of what a vertical market application is about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_market

The vertical market companies compete with similar companies that are in the same niche. And the competitors that do not use VFP do not have the burden to convert. This may indeed put the VFP-dependent companies out of business.