>If I am reading John Koziol & Craig Berntson post about VFP's standing, I feel good and hopeful, but if coming from John Petersen, I feel bad and hopeless.
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>Are VFPers just disillusioned about VFP recovering?
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>Here in East Asia, Visual Foxpro is really recovering its ground in the marketplace. Are we going to be part of the product's recovery or part of making a coffin for the product? MS seems serious on their
>commitment, how about you?
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>People like John Petersen will most likely to laugh at us if VFP will not recorver. Why? He is playing safe...
>Look at his book by Prima publishing, it's nothing as compare to Hentzenwerke's.
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>I am just knew here in UT but my impression is that John Petersen is like a lawyer. It seems no fault on him, and he knows everything.
>He is the one who can make crooked, straight and the straight, crooked. He should be hired by MS as lawyer in the lawsuit and MS will most likely to win.
>Mr. Petersen is technically expert maybe, but it's not enough. I don't know his genuine color: optimist, realist, or pessimist? How about you guys?

I'm not going to get into an arguement about what John is or isn't. John has done much to raise awareness of VFP outside the community and to raise awareness of other products here in the VFP community. John knows his stuff. If you need to find out about ADO, he's the man.

Now, regarding VFP market share, MS has publically stated that there are 500,000 users worldwide. That's alot. I say it's up from that. But, let's take JVP's position and say that it is holding at about that number. That's still lots of users and these are not people that MS is going to look at and say "We don't want you anymore". Fox makes money for MS. That's the bottom line. If the number stays steady, Fox will continue to make money for MS.

Now as for recovery...Fox will never have the market share it once had, but that doesn't bother me. There is no sense trying to get it there. It won't happen. Will Fox get the resources that VB has? Nope. But, let's stop worrying about this and get on with developing great apps in VFP.