>Fred, you said it very well. M$ is to big, disorganized and very political.
>FP is the red headed step child becasue it's foregin to M$. Purchased for it's ability and staff's skill. That skill was leveraged to SQL ? so says the grape vine.
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>Listening to M$ is about as absurd as believing political commercials. It's all a crock. In an environment that changes as fast as this, FP has stood the ground. I would love to see a name change. Something to give everyone something to talk about.
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>Would the press reps know anything in a press release?
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>So let's think of the new name.
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>__Stephen Russell
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I believe that Chris Williams went on to M$ C++ area, not SQL. There very well may have been others that did go there.

When M$ bought Fox Software, I was speaking with Sherrie Kennamer about what/when was M$ going to rename FoxPro to. She was shocked that anyone could even imagine them ever changing the name...