>At th 96 DevCon in Scottsdale, VFP 5.0 was introduced. Microsoft stood up and said "We screwed up the marketing of VFP 3.0 and we're going to change it." They made a HUGE effort to do so. They could have gotten any marketing people, but they didn't. They, in fact, hired two Fox people to handle VFP marketing. Robert Green was a longtime Fox developer and trainer in Chicago. David Lazar worked for Fox Software before the merger. I wonder how many product groups can tout their lead marketing people have actually used the product or know it as intimately as they do.

>> Yeah right! 96 was about the time that MS came out with the 6 or 7 page orange ads for Visual Studio. Remember them? They ran in PC Week and/or Infoworld. I'll probably mix it up some but this is basically what they looked like.

Page 1 - Visual Studio Overview
Page 2 - VB
Page 3 - VC++
Page 4 - VJ
Page 5 - Visual Interdev
Page 6 - VB AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

VFP DIDN'T GET IT'S PAGE.
NADA.
NOTHING.
HOW DOES THAT GRAB YOU?!

Yeah boy, there's commitment for you.