You guys should be used to these nay sayers by now. We don't control the media, although some think we do <g>. So, opinions are always being passed around. Do you really think some IT manager is going to make his/her decisions based on speculation by some anonymous source? Obviously, this "one corporate user familiar with the company's plans" is not very familiar with those of VFP.

VFP and the VFP team are still going strong as you guys will all see at Devcon. And Calvin is getting really excited about showing everyone some cool new things.

Randy [MSFT]

>"This is part of the overall move to better push SQL server data to the desktop--and [it is] using Office to do it. It is the first step in getting rid of Jet now in Access and the Microsoft FoxPro technologies," said one corporate user familiar with the company's plans, who requested anonymity.
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>Although the source sounds suspicious, it is not surprising that Microsoft would take this direction. Given Microsoft's statement about its commitment to Foxpro, perhaps the company should have to answer some very hard questions at DEVCON?
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>I hate to re-create this ugly thread, but we need to address this issue. When articles like this appear in papers like Infoworld, IT decision makers will automatically rule out VFP as a serious development tool.
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>Regards,
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>Jim Weil