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02/10/2000 18:19:08
Jay Shepherd
Construction DataFax, Inc.
Montevallo, Alabama, United States
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00420459
Message ID:
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Hi Jay...

You pretty much nailed it!!

Good Job!!

< JVP >


>>>... it's just that it and the other features that you mentioned are about 3 (4 by the release) years behind, IMHO.
>>
>>So, what's your point?
>
>My point is that unless MS gets behind Foxpro and makes it more compatible with other VS tools and including many of the newer technologies and features found in those tools (within a reasonable time frame, not a few verions behind), companies are just going to migrate to VB and other languages. IMHO, VB and Fox are not competing products, but the IT world doesn't see it that way.
>
>Right now, I'm training a staff of 4 developers for a company to switch to VB from Foxpro. I don't agree with their management's position on switching, but I'm not sure I blame them anymore.
>
>To be quite honest, at this point, there might be a version 8, but I'm not so sure about a version 9.
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