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Great News for Microsoft - Ballmer soon to be gone
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24/08/2013 11:29:43
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows Server 2012
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Web
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Thread ID:
01581120
Message ID:
01581317
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I can tell you that Ken Levy often said there were 100,000 VFP developers world wide. That means every developer had applications running on 1500 PCs. I just don't buy that. And you're saying that if it weren't for the VFP app, those PC would not be sold. Again, that's a lot of BS.


>Common sense is enough ... Just look at how much revenue you can make per user per year (about $600), thus how many users you need to pay your bills, time, advertisement, rental, clerks, your work and make profit.
>
>Can't tell you where we got the number of developers from, what I can tell for sure it's conservative. Nothing to do with the number of licenses sold.
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>Though I'm sure the Fox team has made some research on 'real' developer counts, I doubt they chose the good rationale to defend VFP against those at ms who had wanted, for almost 10 years, to kill it.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer
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