Let me throw something else out... again

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Tod Nielsen wanted to move up. VB was "Bill's baby". Could it be he was trying to push his own agenda at advancement by getting more people to move to VB, and earn points with the boss?
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I really believe that Eric Rudder believed in VFP. Perhaps it was Tod that made the original decision to kill it.


>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.