>Excuse my ignorance, but is there any reason the ten ton gorilla (M$FT) couldn't have done what etecnologia is doing for us, in the begining? I bet it doesn't have anything in the world to do with one of the best data languages not bringing in monumental CAL extortion revenue for them...
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>Thanks a bunch to etecnologia for keeping the VFP candle burning. By the looks of their efforts, that candle is going to turn into a raging furnace! Viva VFP!! Yeeeeeehaw!
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>It will be a serious thrill to see, one day, when hoards of VS folks see what powerfull data advantages they can achieve in a fraction of the dev time, and with huge cost savings for their clients, and turn their backs on the dictates, and usuary licensing practises of said gorilla.
This was my thought exactly. The excuse was that it was too complicated to make a VFP for .NET. Yet here we have this mob with their meager resources doing just that when M$ with all its resources put it into the "too difficult" basket.