I suppose I contrast him to Robert Green whose most famous comment was "if you haven't seen it in two versions, take the hint" He was supposed to be the marketing guy? Actually we all know his job was to kill VFP as quickly as possible, and I despise him for it.

The biggest thing Ken did was to convince MS not to hold back on what could be included in VFP. MS had already crippled VFP by delaying its developement (which it wanted to do so VFP would not steal the show from MS's other products), but Ken convinced MS to include at the end the type of things that should have been including all along, and I appreciate that Ken did that. All the while he made very clear that VFP was not strategic for MS. He did not lie.

These are just a few of the credits I give Ken:

- He went through developers requests and made priority those that he thought were useful. That's marketing.
- WITH (BUFFERING = .T.) This is HUGE
- AutoInc field type Very useful
- TRY / CATCH I am not saying he invented TRY / CATCH, just that he thought enough of VFP to bring it here.
- BindEvent Can do powerful stuff
- SCATTER NAME Huge too
- He got MS to agree to change it's licensing terms of source code variations. It should have been done before, but he did it.
- And many other enhancements that just made sense.

That is why Ken has my appreciation and respect and I would give him my vote for lifetime contribution to VFP.

Alex


>You give Ken more credit than what is reality.
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>>So true. A short list of some of the giants of Fox flashes by: Dave Fulton for creating it, Tom Rettig for gaining it fame, many other early ones for consolidating it, Ken Levy for shaping versions 8 and 9, Calvin for making modern VFP what it is, Rick Strahl for Web Connection. I am going to stop there because I am overwhelmed at the realization that I can;t do justice to the many who support the community and are really a feature of the product.
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>>Heartfelt thanks to all,
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>>Alex