Yep those are all great tributes. Maybe a tribute page on the web where we can use all the great stories of our trial and tribulations!

The VFP Winners circle.

Unfortuantly, bending the arm of an IT director to look at it.

Maybe having a ROI templete here on the UT. That way your ROY on an application can reference VFP as a back end, SQL-Server and Oracle.

These are all noble ideas but I'm not sure anyone is willing to put up the time and their trade secrets to the gang. Would your customer be willing to a screen demo of his application for others to see? Probably not. Maybe if we have a bird dog fee that goes back to them.

Part of our contrac could be:
You pay a 100 fee to have the virtures of your application listed the Winners Circle. If your application was picked as a model, and the developer gets the sale you will be reimbursed your 100.00 each and every time it happens.

__Stephen Russell



>I agree that if MS doest that in will make 95% of a difference, if us - the other 5%
>What I am saying it can make some waves. If there is no mention of VFP in the magazines which everybody knows (say, PC Week) - there is no attention. If there is - it is a pointer. At least you can say to the client: "Hey, didn't you see that page in PC Week which says that the Channel Tunnel is served by FoxPro and US Army used VFP in Desert Storm? Don't you think that VFP can handle your work orders for the 1/100 of what SQL Server will cost you?"
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>Nick
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>>Well Nick. It's not as simple as that.
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>>We can do all that, and more. A full page ad in PC-Week makes devcon fees look tiny.
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>>M$ is the only one that should be looking towards that venue. Not us.
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>>Remember the press that the BIGGER ford "suburban parking beast" got. It was tremendous. Why did it get it? It was new. It was different.
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>>Say that M$ did the same with a bigger version of VFP. It too would get press.
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>>If we put a WEB presences together what would it gain? Not a freaking thing. There are plenty of those, including this one. Who would be prompted to look for it? No one. I see a waste of money and time. Either resource I don't want to pass to this ARK.
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>>"Hey Noah, how long can you tread water?" Bill Cosby
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>>__Stephen Russell
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>>>>I like the concept. I still say that a New & Improved VFP will be a yawn.
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>>>>Now could M$ take the concept you described and bend PCWeeks arm for a 2 page ad? Sure. Would that get read as a NEW direction by M$. Yes.
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>>>The problem as I see it here is that Microsoft is not going to move in that new direction. If they wanted, they would do it already. If WE want this to happen we have to promote VFP ourselves. I think placing the ad in magazines like PCWeek and others would make some waves. I think it is a good idea to set up the web site (called say, White Fox Pages) with more detailed information about companies who work with VFP and applications they have done and post the link there in the ad.
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>>>Nick