>Last week we had in São Paulo city one of the biggest software events of the world (FENASOFT 97) and one friend of my heard from Microsoft Brazil people. "If you are going to choose one windows language go to Visual Basic even you are clipper developer, because visual basic market is bigger and the focus of Microsoft language"

I heard the same phrase from a Microsoft speaker here in Montreal, except the Clipper part. And the discussion went something like that:

Q:"But I am a FoxPro developer and I have projects already developed in VFP. Should I change for VB or Access?"
A:"No, Microsoft will continue to support VFP. Although, if you can move to VB, do it."

This was somehow weird for me, because I would expect some consideration on which language is better for which project/problem type. But nothing was said on this. The discussion continued with other more "political" issues.

>Another point, since last October I could easy found FoxPro Advisor in bookstores, after that the magazine disappear and the people of FoxPro Advisor said me they don’t have distributor to Brazil anymore. The newspaper "Inside Visual FoxPro" (Cobb Group) stopped.

>In this site I could minimize the problem with support in Microsoft products. Lack of Support is big problem in Brazil, mainly to people like me that are not in Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo.

Just for my curiosity: Can you have better support for Delphi or VB there (compared with the support for VFP)?

Vlad