>I recently began shopping the market for FoxPro work. For me -- this meant calling and connecting with programming consultants, head-hunters, and the like. The story that I got from them almost without varience was:
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>"Fox is on its way out. Even MS says so. The system will be renamed to something else and folded into more 'sexy' products like Back Office or SQL."
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>The general consensus that I got was that I should be going after systems development platforms like Visual C++, Visual Java, Visual Basic, Oracle, and the like. Now the question is -- am I chasing a dead or dying dog (Fox)? Also, what are the rumor mills from Microsoft themselves? Finally, what are the markets saying? Are we doing mainly small jobs and conversions from Fox to one of the "sexy" platforms? What about the stuff I read from MS saying that Fox is being positioned as a middle-teir product? Is all that bull or what?
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>The bottom line here is that I do NOT want to be wasting my time with something that will take me nowhere. Any advice or input you might have would be greatly appreciated!
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>Thanks,
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>Larry Rix
Hey Larry,
We've beaten this dead horse so many times around here that I think we actually brought it to life. I would recommend to check out VFP's home page at microsoft's site and look for an article that talks about the future of VFP. People at MS that are saying these things are most of the times disconnected of what is going on with the VFP & VS teams. People outside MS are of course in no position to have any insight on the future of any MS product and can only speculate.
Regards,