>>>>Microsoft has been hinting for years that we should start looking at .Net. For years, many in the VFP community have been saying that eventually VFP would go away. It's not like the announcement from MS was a total surprise. If you weren't working on retooling, that's your fault.. not Microsoft's.
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>>... "now use this product, oh, we're killing that, now use this one, oh, guess what, now you have to change to this other one" game.
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>That tactic is nothing new, it even has a name: "Fire And Motion"
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>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html

Speaking of Joel, I find it amazing that both my daughter and I use his software at work - and our jobs are as different as possible, while both can be still called programming.