Not to be argumental but inquisitive: If large companies using FP/VFP NEVER advertise (not just in paper but via other media like web), how do you find them?

Again, your looking at this from a consultant's view. Before I joined my current company, I also briefly worked for a small consulting company. The pay was good and even offered to increase my pay when I worked there only few weeks when I told them I would be leaving. The reason I left was most of the work involved Y2K-ing old AccountMate accounting Foxpro DOS programs and other enhancements with very few VFP projects. This was precisely why I left the previous company before.

>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.