>Interesting little exchange going on this topic...
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>Regardless of what's rumour or fact, I think my point is being missed. The point I'm making is that there have been rumours and speculation that VFP is going to be dropped. Nonesuch for VB. The fact that there are these rumours and speculations about the longevity of VFP begs the question, "Why?".
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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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>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.

Sprint decides faster than anyone else. Joke...

It's hard for companies like ALCATEL, CALTEX, ALLIANZ PHILIPPINES, PLDT, EUROTUNNEL etc. if they are to decide just as fast as Sprint do. Where is the business logic?

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>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.

MS dropping VFP means giving up lots of $$$ for them. When MS directly stated that they will no longer release VFP5 for MAC, they did. MS statements on VFP long term support is loud and clear, which means if they will not stick to their word, they're cutting their throat. Your signature states that your area of specialty is Visual Foxpro and so why you based hard decisions on others who have specialty on speculations.


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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