I've just sent an email off to Kevin to get permission to post this in the news section.

>>>I knew you'd blow us all away with a great new paradigm! This new version of the framework opens up all kinds of new possibilities. Can't wait to get my hands on it.
>>
>>
>>hey! what did i miss... where's the scoop jim?
> First of all, we would like to say THANK YOU to all of you for your
>> continued support of Mere Mortals. You have helped to make 2000 a great year
>> for the Framework and build a great community of developers. We have some
>> exciting things planned for 2001!
>>
>> So, along with wishing you a "Happy New Year", we bring the following news:
>> **The premier of Advanced Mere Mortals training
>> **Information about the next release of Mere Mortals
>>
>> ****************************************************************************
>> *
>> *** Mere Mortals Advanced Hands-On Training & Workshop ***
>> ****************************************************************************
>> *
>>
>> This new Mere Mortals hands-on workshop continues where the "original" Mere
>> Mortals training leaves off. This 5-day workshop utilizes the
>> "soon-to-be-released" version 6.1 of the Framework and takes you through the
>> following phases of application development:
>>
>> Phase 1: Use the Unified Modeling Language along with visual modeling tools
>> to analyze and design a simple application.
>>
>> Phase 2: Create business objects for the application that carry out the
>> responsibilities identified in Phase 1. Business objects in this phase work
>> against VFP data.
>>
>> Phase 3: Build a VFP front end to access the business object middle tier
>>
>> Phase 4: Build an ASP front end to access the business object middle tier
>>
>> Phase 5: Upsize the application to SQL server.
>>
>> Phase 6: Use Mere Mortals and Windows DNA technology to create a true
>> three-tier, distributed architecture.
>>
>> Technologies covered in this workshop:
>>
>> ASP, ADO, XML, COM/DCOM, Visual Interdev, MTS, Rational Rose/Visual UML, UML
>> Use Case Diagrams, UML Activity Diagrams, Windows DNA, Remote Views, SQL
>> Pass-through.
>>
>> The training will be 5 days and cost $2000. Dates will be announced soon!
>>
>> ***************************************************************
>> *** Mere Mortals version 6.1 Highlights ***
>> ***************************************************************
>> We appreciate everyone's patience... we decided to include some items in
>> this release to make it more robust. This was partly due to Microsoft's
>> delay in releasing VFP7 which drives our release of a full version upgrade.
>> This did push back the delivery date, but we know you will not be
>> disappointed *and* it will be free to current 6.0 users!
>>
>> Here are *some* of the larger enhancements that will be included in version
>> 6.1:
>>
>> * Far easier implementation of true, three-tier distributed architecture. To
>> complement KBizObj (Windows DNA emissary), we have created a new KExecutant
>> (Windows DNA Executant) class.
>>
>> * COM Server optimization
>>
>> * Tight integration with XML and ADO for data manipulation and distributed
>> architecture transport mechanisms.
>>
>> * Additional support for client-server SQL passthrough
>>
>> * New Subject and Observer classes that provide "Publish and Subscribe"
>> capabilities outside of the COM arena.
>>
>> * Built-in support for multi-lingual capabilities.
>>
>> * Lots more documentation (this is the one that *really* delays the release
>> the most!).
>>
>> As always, version 6.1 will be backward compatible with previous versions of
>> the Framework. Look for it in first quarter 2001!