Cindy. There is no time limit on Academic pricing. Even without the rebate it is a steal. I bought VS6 Enterprise for about $400 Canadian ($300US).

Unless you plan to use VB or the other tools, I would wait.

>I have a letter from MS offering an upgrade from VFP6 to Visual Studio Enterprise. With the rebate and the Academic price, it's a steal. The offer is good till 12/31/2000.
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>So, should I upgrade now, or use the upgrate to get Visual Studio 7 (or whatever is coming out by next Fall)?
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>The one reason I see to upgrade now is to use Visual Modeler. I am about to start my first "real" OOP project, and the business rules will be complicated, but it is actually a pretty small project, and paper modeling may be enough.
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>Other reasons to have all of Visual Studio is to be able to learn VC++ (haha, once I get VFP down 'pat'!!)
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>I would appreciate all opinions and advice.