Thanks Mike. How are things going with you? I took a little time off to travel, but am doing some freelance work now (web stuff mainly).

Well, there's not much left of the Fox team at MS these days. It is pretty sad, but folks have moved on. I guess it is amazing that our beloved product lasted as long as it did.

Yes, I did write some comments on the subject recently. I also just read Mary Jo's recent blog on Pablo's petition. It is sad to see Microsoft continue to put a spin on things. Calvin and I looked at doing .NET and 64-bit. These things were certainly possible if Microsoft wanted to devote more resources to the team. But it seems they were always more interested in taking away resources than adding them.

Now, I read this new excuse about some large customer(s) possibly being concerned that if MS were to work with a 3rd party to continue evolving Fox, that 3rd party might not be on their approved vendor list. Maybe this large customer should be more concerned about Visual FoxPro not being on the approved product list now that MS has announced an end date for VFP. And since when did the needs of a few outweigh the need of the many :).

Certainly, VFP has not been strategic for years and a reason why they didn't want to make it .NET. After all, Microsoft already has products like VB, C#, SQL, Access which (collectively) already do what VFP does. I hope this is nothing new to any of you. But there were also resource issues. Do you guys remember when Microsoft bought Fox Software? As many of you know this, one of the stipulations in the deal was for the developer team to come over to Redmond. I think something similar needed to take place in order to bring a better data model to Visual Studio -- tap into the strong Fox developer resources.

Personally, I would love to see Microsoft be a little less callous on this whole matter. This attitude of "that's our decision, get over it and move on" is a bit disconcerting, especially to a community that has been so loyal to a product that existed well before Microsoft bought it.

Peace....Randy

>You turned out to be the last one. You probably never suspected that would happen when you were a free thinking Deadhead in San Francisco.
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>If you have posted what you think about the announcement I missed it. And you probably won't, will you?
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>This is probably as good an opportunity as I will get to thank you and the rest of the VFP development team for taking it as far as you did. VFP 7, 8, and 9 were all great releases. VFP 9 is probably the nicest development tool I have ever used, right up there with VS 2005. It truly amazes me that you guys did that with such a small team. Super job.
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>Someone said here the other day that you are retired. Is that true? Somehow I don't picture you sitting around letting the grass grow under your feet.