>>When sales of VFP 8 and 9 were low, it made it hard for the team to argue against management for another release. Huge sales of 9 would have provided an argument that there was still money to be made.
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>>All that said, absolutely, declining sales are the result of Microsoft's failure to market outside the Xbase community.
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>>Tamar
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>Not so much a failure as a deliberate decision. MS made it abundantly clear through Ken, over and over again, that VFP would only be marketed within the xbase community. It's hardly a surprise that VFP didn't sell very well.
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>For MS to say that VFP is being discontinued due to lack of sales is disingenuous at best.

Again, I agree. I'd argue, though, that the decision to discontinue _now_ was influenced by lack of sales.

Tamar