Good Marketing slang!
I remember that some years ago we included a VB6 OCX for reporting in our APP. So the development language became "Visual Studio" in our demos, for customers who didn't understand well VFP. Now we are free to say that the Development language is VFP, we are so vertical and so good that usually customers don't really care about the development language. Also, from 1998 to now, VFP has made a good step in terms of customer perception. I think thios is becuse of the demise of so much tools (VB, Powerbuilder, Delphi) who seemed stronger than VFP and finished in the dust.

>>Easy money:)
>>We had an interesting correspondence with one of our customer's IT manager:
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>>Manager: In what language this application was created?
>>Sales person: It was created in Visual Foxpro.
>>Manager: (angry tone) I'm not asking what tables were created in, I'm talking about the programming language used to create the application like VB, C++, Java...
>>Sales Person: AFAIK it was written in Visual Foxpro but I'm not a technical person and I'll forward this to our lead programmer.
>>Me: It was written in MS VFP + few activex controls + few dlls created using MS VC++. If you have any further questions about the details ...
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>>We didn't hear back from the manager.
>>Cetin
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>I hv idea !!
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>We should create some NET gadget that we can use together with VFP;
>some nice skin, or status bar, or toolbar or even tiny little calendar
>calculator or so ...
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>And then you make your sales personnel learn mantra ;
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>...It is well balanced buquet of latest M$ technologies; wisely *blended*
>with best database tool ever written, providing application of unbeatable performance, designed & krafted to best fit your business needs at higly competitive price ... blah,blah... buzz,buzz ...
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>Well for more blah,blah,buzz,buzz
>You will hv to hire some professional bulls**t artist :))
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>But then again that wld be a *little white lie*.
>We all know that VFP does not need anything, except few capable pairs of hands.
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>So what ?
>NET crews are populating & scattering arround - tons of buzz like this.
>At least we can *wash* ourselves by delivering really good and affordable app
>that can satisfy our client.
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>Cheers :)