Evan, JohnK,

I do not frequent any VB forums, so the paranoia is surprising to me.

mounting soapbox. . .

1) What is this "trend" to thin-client, etc??? Maybe for Internet apps that might be a "trend", but there is far more to the world you know. Not every business - in fact not all that many bisnesses - have a *need* for Internet deployment.

2) So I guess that HTML supplanting VB is the source of the paranoia in the VB camp? Well, isn't that special now... *we* can be gleeful for the paranoia of the VB camp while, all the while, VFP is whittled away to be a mere shadow of its former self! Let's all smirk together at the VB camp while we go down in flames!

Evan, I too have been 'learning' VB, but I must admit that other pressures plus my heart not really being in it has me moving very slowly on the effort. But the true problem is that I resent "having" to learn another language and I am very sure that I will NOT be proficient in *ANY* by the time I have "learned" it. I also resent having to 'use the right tool for the job' because FP/VFP *could* (have) done it all and had MS cared to it could have worked well for current (ie internet, ect) stuff too.

bounding off soapbox

MS decrees a "trend", does much to push it, and *hopes* that the trend "takes". If it doesn't, it evolves thing towards something else, all the while never admitting that that was their gambit.

I admit apprehension and disappointment at the way VFPers follow right along as puppets on a string. I'm convinced we could give the great choirs of the world a real run for their money, so good are we at taking MS' latest songbook and changing songs without missing a beat. All in absolute and wonderful unison/harmony too!

Hopefully, for 1999, I can steer more clear of issues like this.

Jim N

>ROFLMAO, Evan, my point exactly. Then again, they have more exposure to n-tier than VFP people because all data access in VB is client/server when you think about it. I'm not too concerned about this trend, in fact, VFP people are strongly suited to moving more into architectural models as we have strong experience at the data tier and presentation tier.
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>>The Vancouver Foxpro User Group was fortunate enough to have Ken Levy and Robert Green speak to us this summer. Both stressed the fact that we won't be building as many VFP only apps in the future. HTML front end, VFP middle and whatever on the backend. Hmm... this should start making the VB guys really paranoid. :-)