>>Hello
>>Anybody of you know why Microsoft did not give importance to foxpro since it was bought from Ashton Tate, visual basic had more advertising :(
>>Luis Martin
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>Ooh, many reasons. For a start, it competed with VB, MS-Access and SQL Server in their eyes.
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>Lots of kids learned VB at school. Then they offered their services as consultants (no experience and little knowledge but that did not stop them). They used VB+Access for small businesses. One day the business grew. They called the kid back.
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>"You wrote this nice little program for me but now I have more customers and more inventory and it has become too slow! What do I do?
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>The kid gets scared and does not know what to do, so he call Microsoft for help.
>"No problem, we have a solution for you: Upgrade to SQL Server!"
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>Thus Microsoft made lots of money selling SQL Server licenses to people that overgrew Access. Overkill of course, as these people where not big enough and sophisticated enough (read in-house staff) for such a big jump. But with one VFP license to the developer, MS did not make any money of these businesses.

Wow... it is time to celebrate... for sure!! this is the very first time that I saw a MVP person comming in public to talk about the "microsoft way of life".

Yeesss!! Maybe is time to see something changing now!!

Dear Alex.. Please don't feel insulted about my commentary... this message is full direct for a general purpose.. general politic of mvps.. If you personally fell insulted, in advance forgive me..

Claudio