>There was a message in teh VFOX forum on Compuserve about a wekk ago form >a friend of mine in the DC area. he said that the company he is working >with had proposed a system for one of the military branches of the US >(which the company really didn't want to do) to be done in VFP. The >project was denied and in the lenghty denial the VFP VBA web information >was quoted as part of the proof that VFP was not a viable language to be >used <g>. An example of our government at work, dupped by an April Fools >Joke. > > No comment on location of April Fool's joke. Yes, I did appreciate the message's message. However, I read that message and everybody is not recognizing one of the most important parts that Tom Meeks stated. It said that FoxPro was going to go away within a year and that the last release, 5, was really the *last* release. This crap was not on any web pages I know of that have anything to do with FoxPro, including the April Fool's joke. That is the crap that came from the combination of what the Gartner group report said while VFP5 was still in beta testing, and a comment that some editorial authors in Datamation magazine made as to why they didn't cover Visual FoxPro as a RAD database tool amongst VB and ProblemBuilder (er, I mean PowerBuilder). Obviously, the guy that came up with his version of the facts either was a politician or is practicing to be one who knows how to work the system to his own ends by revising history and facts. He would have used any means possible to win that work, regardless of whether or not there was an April Fools' page. Some people would use stronger language to describe that type of character's traits, but I think everyone gets the point. As for the government, I'm glad their expert analysis didn't tell them to use Kaypro machines with a CP/M OS to help wage the Gulf War. Sheesh!!!! It just shows you you can't believe everything you read from any source whether it be Gartner Group, Datamation, or the Internet. You must verify not only your sources but the information they're feeding you. For those outside of the USA, a country of practical jokesters evidently, please use a search engine to look for the meaning of an April Fools' joke. I think I read that somewhere in South America (maybe Argentina) has something similar, but it's at the end of December, maybe the 30th. Maybe it'll catch on after all. :)