Exactly right. TODAY, they will overpay. However, they will only overpay for as long as they have to. When tomorrow comes, a lot of Fox'ers that have lived high on the hog are going to wonder what happened to their bread and butter.

Success can breed complacency. It is easy to get lulled into a false sense of security. Noboby enjoys having to start from scratch, all those late nights learning. Yet, it is something we all have to do...

My goal is to ease the burden a bit as it relates to migrating from VFP to VB/SQL..


>>You Fox knowledge is going to come in handy. However, all of the Fox skills don't mean much when there is a severe lack of jobs. This is what many folks need to understand. It is your scenario that I wish to address and it is folks like you that I wish to help.
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>the opposite is happening in Toronto.
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>I am being 'overpaid' due to the LACK of Foxpro programmers.
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>However, these shops are not going to continue to 'over pay' programmers/developers. The managers cringe when I hand them a Foxpro maintenance bill; one by one I my clients are moving to Access2000 or VB6.
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> Also, Access is now reasonably fast when crunching data on a P3-600. The CDX index used to be the fastest thing around when running on a 486 or a P-133; those days are over. This single practical fact makes it hard for me to justify upgrading my skills in VFP.
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>For the kind of work I do Access2000 has become the best development tool.