>>>>>I've been using it for quite a while (started with the alpha builds.) - I think it's great - no real issues I've run across, have VS.NET 2008, SQL Server 2005, VFP9, Office 2007 and a LOT of other stuff installed.
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>>>>Wow... sounds great! Maybe there will be some life left in VFP for the forseable future!
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>>>It does appear to run in W7 - so at least it won't kill the current VFP apps out there....but still I don't see the logic in anyone creating a NEW application with VFP when it's pretty much at death's door.
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>>Why not?
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>>I understand what you mean but there's still life in it for a while. Perhaps longer than you think.
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>I hope longer than I think. As I said in another post, it's an excellent product and works great - it's the image that it has in the I.T. world that will probably keep big-bosses and companies from starting new development with it.

Aloha :)

Maybe market will get back to their senses with this crises, bailouts and all that.
If ROI and Cost/Functionality becomes important again, then VFP just might get new lease on life.

If VFP based solution can cut the mustard for the fraction of the price, then some of those less stupid managements
might decide to ignore market scare-crows, folow common sense and buy what is affordable today
versus what is 'strategic' on the long run.
(Those xxx-grade funds marketed by famous *financial advicers* were also highly strategic huh ? {g} )

Also I don't think companies will be refurbishing with new PCs as easy as it used to be the case in the past.
Therefore I cannot foresee anything jeopardising Fox in a near future. In this respect W7 might be in much worse situation
then Fox.
Maybe there will be no abundance of new foxpro projects; but between fixing/improving existing VFP legacy apps
and rising big budget for full conversion to new platform, guess what will be the preferable solution nowdays.

Play/experiment with whatever, but keep FoxPro 'guns' handy.

Cheers :)
Sergio