Hi Scott,

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>Also, this stuff is not coming from a friend-of-a-friend chain letter. I was told this directly from Andrew Coupe of the Washington DC office of Microsoft Corp. consulting division. He said we should move our VFP code to COM objects in the middle tier, use HTML/ASP for the front-end, and SQL Server for the database. It was a direct question I asked at our PAFox.org user group meeting. I asked him, "What should we do as VFP developers?" Ask him yourself. His email address is acoupe@microsoft.com.
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Well here, at least, we have an identifiable MS source who *is* spouting the basic "wisdom" promoted by Mr. Green and the VFP team. Recently (with VFP 6.) Mr. Green et. al. also mention first-tier and/or single-tier in addition to mid-tier/COM.

>The other thing I was told, was from Sprint's IT division. Their Microsoft account manager told them that support for VFP would be dropped in 2-3 years. That's why they're dropping VFP and going with VB. A big company like Sprint won't make this kind of decision without confirmation of hard evidence.
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I wouldn't be so sure that a big company would have "hard evidence" before embarking on a change of course. There are lots of factors that can play in such decisions, ego and bias and being uninformed being three biggies. It could be something so simple as seeing much more ad space devoted to VB (jobs, training, add-on products, etc) or even just some bad or inaccurate reporting regarding VFP. An "account manager" is most concerned with keeping an account "in the fold" and if the management at Sprint show a 'leaning' toward VB then he is not about to argue. Should they indicate Powerbuilder or Delphi or whatever non-MS product you like, the exchanges might be quite different, even along the lines of "you really want to toss your heavy investment in VFP????".

Cheers,

Jim N


>I'm not personally defending VB or attacking VFP. I know a lot of developers take this stuff personally and passionately. My allegiance is to Microsoft and $$$. If MSFT says we should develop in Visual Fubar, guess what, I'll be developing in Visual Fubar.
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>Long live Visual Fubar! Yay!
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>Scott
>Microsoft Certified Professional
>Area of Specialty in Visual FoxPro
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>>Jim,
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>>Do your eyes roll up into your head now, every time you see the same thing posted....."Well, I have a friend, who has a friend, who has a friend, who knows someone realllll close to Bill Gates. And they were told support for VFP is going to disappear next month".
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>>PF