Hi Gregg,

Yesterday I was talking to an Acquaintance who is an IT Recruitment Consultant and they were complaining about how hard it was to find FoxPro staff for one of their Clients because it's not a modern Product !!! She was shocked when I told her that it's very modern and Version 7 is coming. I think that many people still associate FoxPro with being Foxpro 2.0 for DOS.

On the Subject of Microsoft promoting VFP in Australia, you should try finding a VFP Training Course here. The only Courses I've seen are as part of Visual Studio and these only last three days and I don't imagine that much of this time would be devoted to VFP.

Regards,
Gavin...

>I just got back from a two week trip to Australia. I spent two weeks doing some training in Brisbane. The first trainer I worked with, a fellow named Neil, works in Delphi and has more than ten years experience as a database programmer. The reporting tool I was learning sat on an Access database. I was curious to know if it was common that such a powerful reporting tool as the one I was sent to Brisbane to learn was commonly used with a database product as limited as Access. The next larger database back end that was usually used with the tool, according to my Aussie friend, was either Oracle or Sql Server. He didn't know that there was anything in between. He had heard the word FoxPro once but he didn't realize it was a Microsoft product. He knew nothing about it. We finally found one man in the entire IT department that, when asked if he knew who made FoxPro, could respond with a question "Isn't that a Microsoft product?" VFP is poorly promoted by Microsoft here in North
>America. But in Australia, it was obvious to me that it had never been promoted at all. I saw copies of Visual Studio in the stores, all of which contained Visual FoxPro. At least it exists there. I couldn't believe that a database programmer of Neil's experience was so completely unaware of VFP. How's that for a lack of support by Microsoft?