>> Sorry for another newbie (business wise) question.
>> I am sure Robert is a brilliant guy. But it appears that every product he worked on is dead. This tells me that the financing for those products has dried up. Then, a
>> logical question (IMHO), who is financing the X#?
>> And how is to say that the fate of X# will not follow the other products?
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>Hi Dmitry
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>Robert work as a contractor on those products and he produced. VO is a Computer Associates product, so it was not his idea to discontinue. Robert is personally financing X# and he uses X# to produce products that generates income. The FOX (Friends of XSharp) membership is partially sponsored by VO developers who believes in X# as the future of XBase.
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>Regarding the fate, I do not believe the approach (open source runtime and compiler) of X# can have the same fate as other products. Even if you consider VFP, MS abandoned it 10 years ago. X# has produced over the last 4 years of its existence more than what any of the other products have delivered. And in that 4 years not one staff change or anybody using it that I am aware of decided to move to "greener" fields...
Thank you for your reply, Johan.
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