Doggone, John ---

Pressed my buttons again :-)

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>Regardless of how MS markets or does not market VFP - how does that affect the work you do with existing cleints - or small to medium size companies that you may take on as clients?

Amen. I've been pushing the same point.

>Microsft's marketing tactics have nothing to do with the solutions I can deliver with VFP. VFP will never achieve parity with VB with regard to VB nor will it takes VB's position in the Windows DNA architecture. Book it. It is a mortal lock. I will bet the ranch and the dog on it.

As obvious as the sky is blue.

>Jim refers to the whole solution. That can be delivered today. What comes in the VFP box is pretty powerful. If you use nothing else, you can build some very impressive applications. The beauty is that other tools can integrate in a more easier fashion than ever before. Is it always seamless?? No. Then again, nobody promised you or I a fair deal in all of this. The way I look at it, any benefits I get accrue to the asset portion of the balance sheet - not the liability side.

Amen...did I say amen? I say amen! AMEN!!!

>People will gripe regardless - and for totally valid reasons as well. VFP should hold a more prominent place in VS and the development world at large. But it does not. As Walter Cronkite said - "Thats the way it is...." You know the old saying - "If coulda, woulda, shoulda where beans and rice - I could feed the world..."
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>What is myopic? Folks not seeing the writing on the wall....

I just don't understand all the carping.....now, I was a carp-leader when I thought that MS was totally dumping on VFP, but I just don't see that now. I see reality. Reality is that you can use VFP the same way you used FP ad infinitum -and- you get these really neat side bennies like ActiveX controls et al.