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Overcoming Customer Objections to Lack of MS Support
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27/11/2008 05:05:04
 
 
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27/11/2008 03:23:49
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Catégorie:
Autre
Versions des environnements
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Divers
Thread ID:
01364159
Message ID:
01364359
Vues:
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>>P.S. maybe because you have not upgraded and with you multiple other clients that is the main reason MS will stop developping VFP. Since when nobody believes it is a good thing to buy the newest hottest version of VFP than MS does not make money and to my opinion that is the core business of this company.
>
>Consider this:
>- MouseTrapInc builds MouseTrap 1.0
>- Not very many are sold
>- MouseTrapInc says, "We have to build a better mousetrap". After a significant investment they come out with a much-improved MouseTrap 2.0
>- MouseTrap 2.0 sells like hotcakes
>
>- Microsoft builds VFP9
>- "Not very many are sold". MS has *never* released sales targets or figures for VFP. Very convenient to let them blame the community for supposedly not supporting the product
>- MS cancels further development of VFP
>
>MouseTrapInc took the opportunity to be a great company. MS disdained greatness in favour of (supposed) bean counting. IMO the real reason is that VFP is no longer strategic, indeed it competes in some ways with their bread and butter - .Net, SQL Server etc.

Is that the Mouse trap with the WC, different from the original? If so, most people I know, who've expressed a preference, don't like it.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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