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VFP The Red Headed Step Child
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09/03/1999 23:09:05
 
 
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09/03/1999 21:31:45
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Visual FoxPro
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Conferences & events
Miscellaneous
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00194142
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Hi Jim ---

The point is, without MS support in the media, marketing, et al, it's tough to point at VFP and declare that it's a solution.


>John,
>
>"Stealth" VFP sessions at TechEd. Sell VFP by "stealth".
>
>This could become a habit we don't need! Soon I'll start feeling like those perverts roaming the ???? (streets, internet, whatever)!
>
>This is a bad idea which can only have negative consequences.
>
>Frankly, it's up to MS to either start doing a serious job of marketing VFP and making it clear that VFP is a full partner/component of VS or sell VFP for a dollar to a reputable development house.
>
>We have tons of serious and well-meaning people here on UT, but in the end we all have a living to make and we all have to live with ourselves.
>
>MS clearly has not lived up to its end of the bargain, and it is high time that it did, or took the honourable alternative.
>
>Jim N
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John Koziol, ex-MVP, ex-MS, ex-FoxTeam. Just call me "X"
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Hunter Thompson (Gonzo) RIP 2/19/05
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