Hi Larry,

I hope you've got your cast-iron underwear on for this one, 'cause it's probably gonna get HOT!

But how would you "be wasting my time with something that will take me nowhere when you yourself state that one of the rumours is that The system will be renamed to something else and folded into more 'sexy' products like Back Office or SQL???
How does renaming something change its "being"?... its attributes?...its skill requirements? I admit that folding it into more "sexy" products is not my cup of tea (I guess I get enough sex as it is, eh) but there could be worse fates by far.

This sounds like one of the more innocuous SPECULATIONS to me. But that is exactly what it is.

This is a horse that refuses to die, but the smell is getting a little better each time it comes up.

Regards,

Jim N
>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