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>If we are at a presentation and ask where VFP is at, and the speakers says "I don't know too much about VFP" or something worse, who is going to be embarassed?? The speaker usually has some credibility with the audience. Somebody in the audience asking about VFP in a room full of VB programmers will probably just draw out some snickers.

Not necessarily. Look back at the "stealth FoxPro" sessions at TechEd last year. Primarliy attended by VB developers who came away totally impressed with VFP. We just hired some VB guys. You should have seen their eyes when we showed them the browse window in VFP!


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>How many MS speakers are there? I have gone to about 10 presentations and only seen about 4 different speakers. I don't think there are too many. Narrow that down to just those speaking about development. Why can't Robert Green get together with these people and sit them down (or at least call them) and let them know what VFP can do? I was just at a presentation called "DEV310: Building Data-Driven Internet and Intranet Applications" and VB was mentioned 4 or 5 times. VI the same. VC once or twice. Access 3 or 4 times. VFP not once.
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That makes it easier for you to call them on it. Not as many people to talk to.


>Why doesn't Robert Green call these guys up and introduce himself and let them know what VFP databases can do? Why doesn't he point them to the MIND article? Why doesn't he let them know that VFP can produce COM components with support for MTS. Hey, I'm not the expert on this stuff. Robert Green should be. And he should dedicate some time to educating people within MS that are going to be educating the public.

These guys have been told by Robert....now they need to hear from you...the customer.

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>The more I think about it, the more it doesn't make sense. Robert Green asks us to do the promotion for VFP. That is not our job. We are not the best people for that job (for the most part) because we concentrate on our own business. We don't have to research the knowledge that has to be known if a debate arises. We have to research solutions for our current and future projects. Sure, we know some stuff about other products, but we concentrate on what we need to know right now and in the near future. We put our hand up at a presentation and ask a question about VFP and the speakers throws back a few terms that we aren't familiar with and we look like dummies. What does that do for VFP?
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>Isn't there some type of VFP marketing department? If there is, what exactly do they do? If there isn't, why not?
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That is exactly what Robert does...marketing....but YOU are the customer and if you are not happy with the sales person (the guy doing the presentation), then you need to call him on it.

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