Well, here's a snippit of a timely email I just received from M$:

MICROSOFT DEVELOPER DAYS '99: Windows 2000 Briefing

Date: Wed, Sept 15, 1999
Locations in Canada: Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax

Attend if you are:
+ Application and component developers using Visual C++, Visual Basic and Java
+ Device writers and HTML authors
+ Corporate developers creating Client Server Applications for the Enterprise
+ MIS level evaluators and managers
+ Microsoft Solution Providers, solutions builders, IS Consultants, Certified Professionals
+ Visual C++ and MFC Developers
+ Systems Integrators and Consultants
+ Intranet and Internet developers

Well, imagine that, no mention of VFP whatsoever. Last I checked I could create applications, components and C/S applications in VFP but I guess I shouldn't attend because, according to M$, this conference isn't for me. There's that great M$ marketing of VFP again |-(


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>>>Craig -
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>>>(First - just so you know ... NOBODY hopes you are absolutly right and that VFP ends up being around forever more than I.)
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>>>Now .. I hear you, but the fact is that this guy (and probably countless others) is out there saying this.
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>>>IT DOES NOT MATTER that he is wrong! All that matters is that he is a MS Big Whig, that he is giving presentations on the future of MS Database technologies to thousands and thousands of IS managers, developers, and IT executives in the biggest cities in the country, here in Philly, in New York, in DC, Boston, Baltimore, etc, etc, etc, ... feeding them free lunch and donuts, giving them T-shirts, showing them big multi-media presentations with lot's of "oooohh ahhhhh" factor ... and that they are going to listen to him and be swayed by his opinions, by what tools are used (or not) in the demos and presentations, and by offhand comments like he gave me while eating lunch.
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>>And Dan Quayle couldn't spell potatos. Alexander Haig said he was in charge.
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>>This MS guy is giving HIS opinion and not the company line. If you're at a seminar and some big whig does this, call him on it...right there. Make him sweat.
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>Wrong. For all the people sitting in one of this guys seminars that don't have the background knowldege to 'call him on it', he is giving M$'s opinion.
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>>I've seen it done before.