>Craig,
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>People would still need to actually go and take those records off the shelf. Platinum is 1,000,000 records sold if memory serves.
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>Ken has a legitimate point that marketing helps but the bottom line is the product has to move off the shelf and in a direct contest between VFP & VB VB will win in terms of numbers. Why? Well, schools traditionally have used Basic as a logic teaching tool, it's cheaper to get (marketing by MSFT to schools) and so forth. There's no doubt that marketing helps and there's no doubt that VFP is a harder sell since no one really seems to know _where_ it should sit - Back end? Middle Tier? Front End? Sure, to all three and that's the trouble. Add a little internal MSFT pro-VB bigotry and there is IMO cause for some response. Having said all that though the simple facts are in what peopl/companies do, not what they say. As I can see it MSFT has poured several tens of millions into the product just to abandon it.
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>Two different products - two different markets.

I agree. I've always held that VB will always have a bigger user base than VFP.
I don't agree that VFP will be abandoned.