Well said, Srdjan. And yes, the "pleasure" of the announcement is ours, but most of the clients will understand that it was Microsoft, not us, that s***canned the perfectly good product. For what it is worth.

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>>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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>In those long threads folowing anouncement, someone explained it as 'cultural difference' to the rest of the world; something to effect that in US is considered *generally OK* to left your long loyal customers in cold in pursuit of higher profits.
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>Accrding to this mentality, you should simply offer your client full rewrite
>in NET and charge him at prevailing market prices. That will be *lot* of hours even if 'baking' data in NET improve beyond all of our believes.
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>So You will be M$ Hero, local NET campus hero (write some articles alongside), maybe even your wife/family hero for purchasing ...
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>Almost everybody happy, except for that client of yours, who all of
>a sudden (some years after 2014) have to fork out (loan?) big bucks for new 'investment' in technology. And all that because time after Vista came and VFP no longer works.
>Or he decides that all this is to expensive of a sport, and remain with
>XP/Vista forever, or God forbid - change platform !!
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>What bugs me here is;
>That it is NOT M$ local representative, one who will have to explain that guy why he will be in IT trouble all over again 10-15 years from now.
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>That 'pleasure' will remain solely with You & me - guys who he knew and trusted all these years...
>That sucks.
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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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>>>Also noted - MySQL hits $50 million revenue, plans IPO