John, a number of years back Microsfot sent me their C++ stuff - right before they had MSDN and the cost was about $30 or so usa money. I kid you not, the box must have been three feet long and weigh 25 pounds and was just full of books. Was enough to scare anyone....:) Needless to stay, it just stayed in the corner and I never used it.




>>>The problem is that very few VFP developers have experience in C/C++ and no one other than a VFP developer would be interested in this project.
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>Hit the nail on the head IMHO. In truth there are fewer and fewwe people with C++ experience, period- at least not the experience needed to do something like this. Calvin already was exceptional a decade ago and it's more pronounced now. Which is why IMHO Rick should be doing this for Mobile. There's as much need for Access or FP on mobile as there was on the PC in the early 1990s and that's where the $ is going- e.g. Priceline just sent out an email offering $10 discount for bookings made via their mobile app rather than website. Normally I'd say that incentives mean it's a lousy product except that Priceline is encouraging migration within its own offering. I'm going to make the booking anyway but I get $10 if I choose the app. I'm betting it's much easier for Priceline to ship packets to an app than to serve up GUI pages where any slowness or glitches push people toward Hotwire. If the difference is worth $10 per room than the days of mobile browser apps are numbered IMHO. Seems to me somebody like Rick who already has a head start could be the next Dr Dave, but if not him then I hope it's somebody we know.