That's true. And it did come from higher-ups.

Why do you think yag was hired to run the VFP team after Ricardo moved on?
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yag was a known and well liked authority in the VFP community. If word comes from him that we're shutting this things down, it will soften the blow.
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Even so, yag was blasted by several VFPers for his decision. It wasn't his decision. He was following marching orders. He was hurt by the attacks he took.

>As crazy as this will sound...
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>When I worked at MS FoxPro as a contractor from VFP 3.0a through VFP 6 SP3 I heard directly from Ricardo Wenger, the manager at the time, that we were making VFP 6 so that FoxPro programmers could migrate to VB.
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>Like I said, it sounds crazy and it doesn't make any sense, but when he told me that it was well after Toad Nielsen put the kabash on FoxPro and whittled the team from, god, something like 30+ people down to 8 full timers and like about 6 contractors. After every product ship, we were always wondering whether there was going to be another.
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>My impression when Ricardo told me that was that he had been told that by the higher ups. Sure, today it sounds odd since MS and mostly the VFP Team on their own managed to ship 7,8 and 9.