>Another one and seemed longer
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>FoxPro users petition to keep database language alive
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>http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9015920&intsrc=hm_list

This is a really good article. My compliments go to the journalist. And there's even some new news. E.g. there's a new name, Jay Roxe being the Visual Studio Product Manager, who now speaks on behalf of. So, YAG is now out of sight, with regard to the media?

The two reasons mentioned are:

1) "As far as forming a partnership with a third party is concerned, we’ve heard from a number of large FoxPro customers that this would make it impossible for them to continue to use FoxPro since it would no longer be from an approved vendor."

2) "For Microsoft to continue to evolve the FoxPro base, we would need to look at creating a 64-bit development environment, and that would involve an almost complete rewrite of the core product."

The first one is really quite new. (Yes, I know YAG also mentioned it some days ago.) And it's really quite stupid also. Not to say very stupid.

The second one is better known, but it is also debatable.