>>>>>Curious to hear from UTers regarding Rainer's VFP / Visual Extend bundle email offer.
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>>>>>I am not familiar w/ Visual Extend, but would love to hear what you Fox gurus think about the email, the ticking clock offer, VFP licenses, bundling, VFE, Lagers v. IPAs... etc....
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>>>>>What say you?
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>>>>For those of us who didn't get an e-mail, can you give some specifics?
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>>>Hi Al, the mail is this one, and I personally don't like it.
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>>What's not to like? They are apparently allowed to sell VFP9 licenses but only bundled with their Visual Extend product. Their right to do so expires shortly. They are offering those who want it the ability to buy Visual Extend with VFP as a bundled deal before their agreement with MS ends. Whats the problem other than they are charging a price for their framework and essentially including a VFP license for free?
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>This is a forum, and advertising is generally frowned upon. Advertising in email is called spam, for a good reason.
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>However, this is OK, IMO. We generally get a few people every year who ask for a way to buy VFP licenses - so this information may be of use to at least some of the visitors of UT. And this is strictly inside the circle - it's not intrusive, not trying to sell anything out-of-context, not a scam... just one of us announcing a final sale. Which falls within my definition of acceptable advertising - and I'm the guy who gave up on radio, TV and newspaper altogether because of advertising, and have installed AdBlock years ago.

Agree with all that. Plus, the original poster of this thread was asking the forum about this email (without disclosing it) and another poster then posted the email contents in order to show those who did not get the email what it said. I think that the circumstances of this matter regarding the soon to expire opportunity warranted this exposure for the reasons you have sited.