Okay! That's it! I'm writing to Bill.

>Nice. Did Calvin say when this VB10 will be available?
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>BTW, yesterday I talked to a client of mine in a county planning department about VFP's future (trying to maintain full disclosure here, even if it hurts...). Here's a guy who works almost exclusively with SQL server data, and I've written VFP apps against their big SQL server parcel databases. He in turn uses VFP exclusively to query and tweak the massive amounts of SQL data in the server. He looked at me in disbelief and said: "That's INSANE! NOW how am I going to quickly query, analyze and report my SQL Server data?" I didn't know quite what to say, except that VFP will be around for a while longer. And here's but one tiny case study, which nevertheless represents maybe hundreds of thousands of people out there who RELY on VFP to slice and dice and make sense of their data warehouses on a daily basis.
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>I came away from the meeting thinking "You know what, the guy is right and I'm already jaded. It IS insane for MS to kill this super-mature and easily approachable product! Why on earth would they do that?"
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>>Okay folks. Everything will be fine now. I just instructed Milind to tell Calvin Hsai to load all the VFP he can into the next VB release. Failing that he could just rename VFP9 to VB10.
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