I'm sorry, Jim, but I can't see how anyone can describe these observations as *theories*.

Take a look at John Peterson's message in the "Lets Vote for New VFP Promotion" thread. The handwriting is on the wall. It has been for a long time. I'd like to go on, about this, but John has stated it so clearly and unemotionally I won't waste server space and bandwidth with a repeat. <s>

>When do you suppose that MS is going to tell us the *real* facts behind this??? As I've said before, as long as we all keep letting them off the hook with fine and rational theories like this one they have no need to talk at all.
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They don't *care* about the market we serve, Jim! They ain't interested! It isn't the Big Kill, Fortune-100, "Enterprise" corporate environment that they want to dominate.

Yes VFP can do much in this market (and there are a bunch of VFP developers and shops that are doing just that), but again, VFP doesn't do much by itself to get Microsoft into every nook and cranny of the corporate IS culture, and to be honest, it doesn't do much by itself to address the concerns of many corporate IS departments - reduction of TCO and improved ease of centralized administration.

I love VFP, I make my living with it, if I could, I'd never look at another development tool. I'll ride this ol' horse until the day it finally gives up the ghost, or forever if it should miraculously rise phoenix-like from it's own ashes.

But if I assume that there is some way I can convince MS that VFP should be important to them (I can't - they either see the light based on their own business perceptions or they don't), and continue to be a one-trick pony forever, the world will pass me by.

Uh-uh. Not this guy.