Pretty much my reaction to the message.

I sent him back a reply asking if this had been stuck in a mailqueue since the '90s since that would be the last decade this would have had relevance.


>You know how every once in a while there will be a news story about the Post Office delivering a letter somebody mailed back in 1936 and it had been lost behind a cabinet in a post office or something and just now found?
>
>Like I'm sure a lot of folks here I recently got a message in my Inbox subject : "Moving from FoxPro 1.x/2.x to Visual FoxPro." and my first reaction was that somehow this had been stuck in a queue in a mail server someplace since 1996 and was just now making to to me ... from Whil Hentzen. If I had not seen 2012 in the message body I would have remained convinced.
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>A month and a half ago I sent out a mailing about moving
>from FoxPro 1.x/2.x to VFP. The response was quite
>robust - you will appreciate that a *lot* of companies
>have a conversion to VFP on their 'To Do' list for
>2012.
>
>I've worked on several projects, with more in the works,
>and have continued to fine-tune the process, as no two
>situations are exactly the same, right?
>
>If you've got a budget, and you're willing and able to
>put some elbow grease into the process yourself, your
>1.x/2.x system can likely be turned into a VFP system
>by the end of 2012. If we start now, that is.
>....
>
> If you've been intimidated by the prospect of learning the Visual
>FoxPro paradigm, fear no longer - I've brought many
>experienced FoxPro/DOS and FoxPro for Windows 2.x
>programmers into the world of Visual FoxPro with
>little pain and much delight and rejoicing as they
>discover the new capabilities and possibilities of VFP.
>
>So...... If you need a hand with your FoxPro 1.x/2.x
>system, I'm available - but my dance card for the
>spring is filling up - contact me ASAP to get on
>the schedule!
>
>I like Whil a lot and he is definitely the best person I can think of to serve this niche - but apparently booming - market.
>
>But I've gotta say the whole thing made me smile and realize what a wonderfully diverse, complex world it is and how one man's meat is another man's "I'd get a gun and stick up liquor stores before I'd do that for a living" .
>
>I've done a fair amount of training in both IT and other diverse areas, and I am trying to picture training people who have been intimidated by VFP and now are finally ready to think they will learn something new ... and a picking VFP.
>
>That's why Ben and Jerry's makes all those flavors. <g>