A user on Foxite named Garth suggested I contact local universities and see if the professors would be interested in incorporating Visual FreePro development into their teaching curriculum.

I contacted the heads of a local university IT department by email this evening and have already received a positive response. I'll be meeting with the professor sometime within the next week or two.

Visual FreePro may live on through academic collaboration.

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin


>It is with a heavy heart I announce that I must suspend Visual FreePro development.
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>It has now been 9+ months since I began and I have yet to find anybody willing or able to come on board and help me with the C/C++ development. I have found several people interested in working with the xbase debugging once the app gets that far along.
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>I have a job with a lengthy commute each day, and I am working too many hours per week to spend the necessary 20-30 hours required to continue properly with Visual FreePro.
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>I am going to continue developing part of the source code base. I will further develop the virtual machine interface and operating system specific portions for a new, smaller project I will begin -- called White Box. It is my hope that when the White Box application is completed it will begin to bring in revenue sufficient for me to continue development of Visual FreePro, and then later the operating systems Exodus, Armodus, Exodus-64 and Armodus-64. We shall see though.
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>Currently, Visual FreePro is about 40% completed. If I could work on it 40 hrs per week at even normal efficiencies, it could be completed (and almost completely functional) in four months. In twelve months, it would be singing and dancing.