>>>>2. Loss of new entrants to VFP.
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>>>This isn't true, DICE.COM and other job sites shows increasing no. of VFP job demands.
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>>Nice if true; could you be more specific? Has there been any realistic analysis done on this?
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>No formal analysis reference, just my observation. Try to browse dice.com with search keywords 'FOXPRO', compare it daily and you will see the number increasing.
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>gwconsulting.com - last year, 1 to 2 every month but today it consistently growing. This consulting doesn't recruit VFP last 2 years ago but now they do.

DICE.COM:
FoxPro - 497 Listings
Basic - 18,409 Listings
Visual FoxPro - 339 Listings
Visual Basic - 13,178 Listings

The best "guesstimate" for relative market sizes is that VB is 10 - 12 times the market for VFP. Based on that, VFP should have over 1,000 listings... looks like it's not keeping up.

I would be more interested in a demonstrated upwards trend in VFP to VB listings ratio, rather than absolute numbers. If the market as a whole, and this site in particular, are growing rapidly, absolute VFP numbers mean little.