>>>Out of curiosity, how come you did not choose some other (manly) men name but rather concealed your identity as female online ?
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>>>You never made any single mistake as to reveal your real gender. If you did not come up like this, I would forever refer to you in my mind as 'that nice German Lady that knows hell of a lot of FoxPro' :))
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>>>And BTW Welcome back, any name you ever choose to use :)
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>>Hi,
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>>I'm here but limited, the Fox will go out of my focus soon. I'm looking around for something new to set up the old projects. Not realy shure what to use except to move away from Redmont.
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>I look around as well, just can't seem to find anything even remotely applicable for my use cases.
>There are few things emerging out there (like for instance AlaskaSoftware or Servoy), but for what we need
>VFP9 is still ultimate solution. :)
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>My (as usually controversial {g}) theory is that at this point VFP9 usefulness is biggest reason why we do not already have
>multiple tools/languages of similar characteristics sprawling around. Smart Redmond. In a way they got rid of VFP, but by making it (VFP9 especially) so good, they made it very difficult for any competition to come close / overtake.
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>VFP9 is simply to good to let go. In a way It is both blessing and the curse. I am not sure what would happen if M$ created
>major environment problems for VFP9 apps in some future OS version, but I have to bet that they will be as responsible as they were so far. Weather we like them or not, their track record for backward compatibility is quiet good. Besides, FoxPro apps are running literally everywhere (Fox DOS apps are not only still running but still selling !! ), so I don't believe it would be in their best interest to create way to many problems to way to many people.
>It is just not done by any serious business, so it is very unlikely to be done by M$.
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>I can easily foresee VFP9 running (and me using it) for next 20 years if not more. :)

Utopian ;-)