Hi John ---

Sorry to sound like I've been venting but I got into one of those "my tools more popular than your tool" nah-nah-nah discussions with a *junior* VB developer today at work and it set the tone for my posts...haha...that being said...

>>>IF I were the head of VS for MS and my mission was to popularize and gain market share for *all* VS tools, I would have the VFP guys head on a platter...
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>Do you honestly think that any product team under VS acts unilaterally? Somehow, I do not think this is the case.

I guess not. What I was trying to do was frame the point of reference to understand what MS goal was by stating the logical postulate that VS marketing was not unilateral.