>I see Terry's back... :o)

Can always tell when the Thorazine and Haldol are running low in Texas ... <bg>


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>>It's over. We "independents" went out, and busted our asses to create a market for custom projects in the US. Microsoft went dog fishing in alleys for the lowest common denominator among us with day old synthetic shrimp to attend their "one size fits all crappy development tool" hypno therapy sessions.
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>>With this tool the low iodine no skill little man man complexed fancy carded consultants frothing to be the king MVP could write programs that were just as pretty and just as fast and of same value as the best among could. Finally, the brick wall that seperated the low skill guy stealing source code from a trash can and the best of us no longer existed. We had the freedom to confuse ourselves as special, We could all write pretty but sh*tty software. And all the low skilled book writing MVPs and DevConJob shills could again edit copies of help screens and write a new book, or assemble a PPT, about another new improved tool they couldn't progran their way out of a wet paper bag with.
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>>That little foray by Microsoft did little more than cut the legs off it's stock value and cause aa mass migration to Java and Lunux (RHT stock has doubled in 3 months).
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>>I see the appeal. A magical "tool" that promised to make slugs look as good me! The great equalizer. Turns Excrement into a diamond.
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>>Microsoft (with others) bribe for tax breaks to outsource from countries with a lot of "crappy" uninspired "I'll do anything for anything to not starve" serfs. Then roving bands of MVP hypno zealots sneak into our market, the market we created and grew, and push the Microsoft Strategic Plan SCAM to businesses that would also get grants and tax breaks to outsource to Microsoft's Boiler Plate Shops in Delhi. The corn ball (MS Strategic Plan) sloganeering provided a basis to seed the false logic to steal take our hard earned market and send it off shore to Microsoft Boiler Rooms in New Delhi where alleged engineers come to work and see a sign on the wall with the message "Do you want to eat today?"
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>>I want to eat today. Steve Balmer looks appetizing - a lot of marbling in the tenderloins no doubt.
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>>And now, on the project boards, these same uninspired 2 cent an hour half starved Microsoft/IBM slaves have the audacity to retask a project back to the states for 2 cents an hour. Meanwhile, Microsoft and IBM ain't paying FICA for their starved labor program in Delhi, and they government gives them a grant for doing it.
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>>And it's all because some of us ate the "Shrimp of Destiny" because we felt cool being at a Microsoft flagged event. Hot to be the MVP, and get the least soured ones on the top of the buffet table.
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>>>Roll your own!
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>>>Are the clients going to log into web service or are they going to do it through a VFP front end.
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>>>Terry! Dude! Buddy! Pal! Friend! I miss your posts. How's the shrimp buffet campaign coming? :)