>>>>>>Is true that vfp will not have a new version anymore
>>>>>>and what will happened to the users, migrate to another langauge rivals of microsoft?
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>>>>>New version, no. No longer exist? Not true. I still use it every day and it hasn't vanished. I wonder whether they'd have the technology to retroactively erase all the disks with it.
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>>>>They'd have to work awfully hard to do so. I had lunch at a roadside restaurant in Slovakia last week (on the road between Budapest and Krakow) and their POS system was written in FoxPro DOS. (Yes, I took pictures.)
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>>>I have worked on a couple of POS systems.
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>>>Oh wait, you mean Point Of Sale....
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>>Move your mouse over the upper right corner of the message area, "Message view settings", right-click, and select Enable acronyms. Then P0S will be automatically expanded into Point of sale.
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>The fact that VFP will no longer exist brings it's own pressures - I work as an independent consultant and my largest client (whose IT knowledge could be written on the back of a postage stamp) is already saying we should move to another language - apart from the threat to my livelihood - it doesn't make a great deal of commercial sense - ours is a big app (about 60,000 lines of code) and to move it to a different platform would be a highly expensive operation and could take forever
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>Any thoughts on how best to answer such clients who are already panicking?

I always say "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Besides that, I know that trying to get people to realize that they are jumping to wrong conclusions, can be like fighting windmills. It can hurt you more than it will help them.