Jeff,

>Naw, I think John is right here. I saw alot of end-users use dBase over the years, but rarely FoxPro.

I've seen both, but probably more dBASE than FoxPro. Maybe this means that htere have been more abandoned dBASE projects? <g>

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>Bottom line is that VFP should have been specified instead of Office/Access. No matter which way you cut it, this is just another slap in our face.

Well, I suppose so but we in the xBase community sometimes seem to expect that slap and I'd think see it where it wasn't intended. IMO the net result of this is that the developer community we live in is very much involved and I think that means a longer life for our developer tool of choice; not shorter.


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>This is why I am looking forward to the evolution of robust Linux dev tools - they WILL come and developers won't get slapped around. To be dependent on one company's technologies is nothing short of being foolish in our industry in the first place.

Indeed. This is one reason I purchases Delphi a while back. Though I haven't loaded it in some 6 months with the onset of Delphi for Linux I'd wager that this will become the front end tool of choice.

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>>>I am sorry, but I don't get it. Isn't the end-user of Fox a software developer? Where on the website does it make a distinction between developer/end user? How did you come to this conclusion?
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>>I think he means they were database users writing apps for their own use. Not so with the average VB/VFP developer. We do software for a living, not data entry.

Best,

DD