Hmmmmm....

What I have seen is that VB work is in a wide range of rates: $25-$100 or so while VFP work tends to be marginally higher: in the $50-$125 range. IMHO, I think it's because of factors that have nothing to do with MS or marketing.

Primarily, I think it's that VFP developers tend (not the word TEND) to be more experienced overall and it's easier to push up rates with experience regardless of toolset.

Want to hear something interesting? I just got back from a tour of state government Department of Transporartation offices to install some statistical software. Not a single one of these offices (and they are pretty big for the most part) runs a VB application, yet almost half of them have FP 2.6 and VFP apps running. Why? I'm not 100% sure, but talking to systems staff at these offices, it was made clear to me that they trusted VFP apps and it seemed that it would be a *harder* sell for a company promoting a VB app there than a VFP app.


>You say this as if it is a bad thing? You see these people as selling their souls. I see them as smart. If you know VB, and you are faced with getting $125/hour for a VB job and $80/hour for a VFP job - and making the timeframes equal and the type of work - the guy who picks the VFP job over the VB job is not only an idiot - he is a lousy business person...