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>I think the Gartner groupd is sort of like Greenspan... if Greenspan says the market is going to crash to 5000 then it WILL!
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>If Gartner came out and gave a glowing review to VFP, stated that this is the tool to use for Middle Tier and Front End business applications... it's market share would shoot up so fast! I think when a person or group has enough power to make their 'predictions' true due to the following they have, then they should keep thier mouth SHUT!!!
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>Imagine is some big automaotive watchdog came up and siad they revied FORD, and there manuafcturing plants are out of date, errors are happening, saftey fetures are being missed, and that withing 5 years FORD will be out of business, so don't buy a FORD... if the majority of people listen to them, it would happen, FORD would go out of business!
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Unfortunately, you are correct. Too many people put stock in what Gartner says. As I stated in another thread, Gartner has an investment now to continue to tell people not to use VFP. They want their initial...and continuing predictions to become fact so that they can say, "See...we were correct."