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

FOXPRO in this site only have 100+ listing last 2 or 3 years ago that is when the time of "VFP is dead" issue is still fresh. Basic at that time has been closed to that level. And we should not expect VFP to compete with VB when it comes to job demands because of MS attitude. Can we say then that VFP is losing new entrants? Absolutely nope.