Great! Ask him to re-arrange it. <g>

>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!