Whil is a pretty smart guy and I would not doubt there is a market for what he is suggesting and he is the person most qualified ( and patient ) to service it.

And this will be especially nice for those clients who are ready to bite the bullet and move to Windows 3.1 or (gulp) Windows95.

But it really does feel like getting a message from the Gas Company saying "Hey, if you have been asking yourself if all this newfangled stuff is just a fad and you really need to start thinking about replacing some of your whale-oil lamps, we now can help you make the transition to gas lamps with the exciting new IsingGlass technology ... "

>Pretty much my reaction to the message.
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>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.
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>>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?
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>>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.
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>>Hi Folks,
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>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.
>>....
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>> 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.
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>>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!
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>>I like Whil a lot and he is definitely the best person I can think of to serve this niche - but apparently booming - market.
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>>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" .
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>>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.
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>>That's why Ben and Jerry's makes all those flavors. <g>