>>>I asked a local company why they don't list FoxPro in their ad anymore and here is their response:
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>>>"About 90% of our work is Access. Foxpro continues to lose market share down from 40% when Microsoft purchased it to about 7% today. We patch Foxpro apps but we really get calls for conversion from FoxPro DOS."
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>>Don't you love these self fulfilling prophisies.
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>>"We stopped advertising that we do VFP work, since we don't get alot of demand for it. It's a good thing, since now we don't get ANY request for VFP work."
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>>BOb
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>There are several issues (of course) that have contributed to the decline of VFP in the marketplace. To me it goes to the standardization which would allow schools to teach VFP (Xbase). Training companies then find it hard to get good trainers and so new people are not using VFP as before.

Please don't link VFP and XBase...that helps with it's bad perception. Microsoft has gone away from that link for good reason.