I agree with you, the same is somewhat true in the Boston area. I've been tracking FoxPro ads. on Yahoo.com for over a year & the number of FoxPro jobs has remained steady. Also, I'm starting to realize that many ads. say 'FoxPro' but really are looking for VFP. The Boston Globe has never been a good source for VFP work. I think the big downturn in Fox/VFP work occurred over 2 years ago & now things have stabilized & actually getting a little better. Yes, there are 10 times as many jobs in VB but there are 20 times as many VB developers.

>In the Minneapolis area, there are many large companies using FP/VFP( and of course programmers) that NEVER advertise in the paper. If one looks in the want ads, VFP doesn't exist, yet I work in a shop with 8 VFP developers, most contractors like me, making at least as much, if not more, than the VB guys. I have a friend on a multi year(that's year not week) contract making 100.00 an hour, pure VFP. You gotta look for this stuff, not expect corporations to track you down begging. Yes, we have a PR battle VB doesn't, but we have a better tool in most cases. If MS would just make VFP a better COM and Windows tool, we could steal tons of VB business.
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>Gary Foster
>Pointsource Consulting Inc.