>>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.
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>>> 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.
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>Page 1 - Visual Studio Overview
>Page 2 - VB
>Page 3 - VC++
>Page 4 - VJ
>Page 5 - Visual Interdev
>Page 6 - VB AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
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>VFP DIDN'T GET IT'S PAGE.
>NADA.
>NOTHING.
>HOW DOES THAT GRAB YOU?!
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>Yeah boy, there's commitment for you.
Yes, it did! I don't have back issues to refer to, but it WAS there.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer