>>>>Hi Mike...
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>>>>Save yourself a lot of heartache - and don't pay attention to the lack of press VFP gets. It will never achieve marketing parity with the other tools. All of that aside, VFP in spite of the this - is still a powerful language...
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>>>I have been supporting Foxpro for years. I am very disappointed with Microsoft. They are just waiting for Foxpro population to move to other tools and make Foxpro part of history. I wish Foxpro was bought over by Borland...
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>>Shihchau,
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>>Yes, good point. Everyone can see the fantstic job Borland is doing with dBASE.
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>If Foxpro be bought by Borland, worst scenario will come. dBase or Visual dBase is as twice as dead horse.

True, but at least Inprise (formerly Borland) listens to their customers. For example, Visual dBase tables can use up to 512 fields (comes in handy for legacy Clipper tables) and also has table and field security. At least, Inprise didn't make users buy Interbase in order to get some security in their apps