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Thanks Craig, I feel better already!

But the VBITS crowd must be real pleased to have a part-time VB marketer as their keynote speaker.

And I wonder why MS can't make one's "primary responsibility" a part of their titles???

Thanks again

Jim N


>Jim,
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>There is a hierarchy. There is one person at the top of the marketing hierarchy for Visual Studio. Robert is one of the marketing people. His primary responsibility is VFP. He has responsibilities in other areas as well. Note that he is in marketing. He is not the top VFP person. He handles marketing. There is a top devleopment person, Ricardo Wegner, who is in charge of the programmers who create VFP. Robert is not Ricardo's boss and Ricardo is not Robert's boss. Ricardo is Group Program Manager. In the MS scheme of things, a Product Manager handles marketing and customer interface. The Program Manager handles development. Calvin Hsia and Randy Brown are both Program Managers. Ricardo is their boss.