>>>>>>>>LOL @ Doors. That would be Microsoft Doors (TM), wouldn't it? <g>. I wonder what VFP will run under? Microsoft Basement (TM)?
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>>>>>>>VFP will be run under Microsoft Bus (TM), since that's what we've been thrown under...
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>>>>>>Sounds like some type of road kill! :)
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>>>>>You'll notice there was no smiley on my message, and that's on purpose. I am less than pleased with the current "treatment" we as a community have received.
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>>>>Fred,
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>>>>I don't think VFP has been thrown under the bus, its just the normal life cycle. When I started programming in 1982, there was MS Pascal. I liked it, it was good, then came Turbo Pascal. I loved that program and used it exclusively for years. When it morphed into Object Pascal, I felt betrayed and switched to dbIII+, then to FoxBase and VFP on...
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>>>I don't disagree that VFP is at end-of-life cycle. I do disagree that we were given a no-go service pack (at least for some important points) and that's just not acceptable. We deserve better than that.
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>>>>The point I'm trying to make I guess is that certain software will come and go. Becuase one package has had its glory days and is now giving way to new programs and new methodolgy, doesn't mean its been thrown under the bus. It simply means that it is not as viable as it once was. Fox in the 90's was the money maker for MS and was where it was at. Conference attendees in the 1,000's, numerous magazines and books, then ...... it just dried up.
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>>>I also don't agree that it "just dried up". It was forced to wither is more like it, due to being ignored because it did not fit there financial plans. As a business, I can see that POV, but as a community, well, they may have just bought more than they bargained for when they bought Fox Software.
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>>>>There's a new set of players in town and having moved to them, when they die, I'll find something else unless I'm dead to by that time.
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>>>Not left with a whole lot of other choices. I've been down this same road before, so it's not that big a deal. I've just never been involved with such a community that was hung out to dry like this one has been (so it appears). But after witnessing what Microsoft did to the VB6 world, it's no major surprise, except for who some of the players are.
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>>One difference between VB and VFP - there will always be some flavor of VB, as long as Bill Gates is associated with Microsoft. VB Fortran, VB Cobol, who knows what is next! :)
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>That will be interesting to see if that's still the case once BG steps down. Microsoft may become irrelevent before VB is totally removed, though.

I can only dream! Bring back CPM! :)