>>I can't make any promises about how "significant" the level of marketing will be, but I will tell you that if we take VFP out of the VS box, we will do more marketing and the marketing we do will focus more on the things VFP does best.
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>I'll make a promise; it won't be near .net or VS advertising. Somehow, my gut instinct tells me this is a done deal. I'm thinking VFP is going to be removed and it's being soft peddled. Call me paranoid, but I believe time will prove me right. Y'all have several of the "gurus" beating the take it out of the box drum, and the only thing that makes sense for that is - it's a done deal. Do you really believe MS is going to put any significant money into marketing? I don't mean a few ads in FoxPro Advisor either!
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THe best advertising for VFP is successful, operational products built using it. I get more VFP business from frustrated people having custom Acess and VB solutions who've then seen what similar applications built using VFP were able to do, especially wrt time to deliver the working product from start to finish. A good app written with VFP, that proudly displays the Fox Head rahter than trying to hide it's origins is what brings in people looking for something developed specifically in VFP; I've yet to run into a situation where the client rejected a working solution because the development platform was Fox, unless there were specific technical arguments (such as the ability to deploy on a non-Windows environment platform) which ruled out VFP. THey may hem and haw at VFP as a platform, but once they have something that works in Fox, the demands for another language seem to diminish.


>I'm thinking it's a win-win if it stays in the box AND gets shipped before the VS Suite. That way you should be able to get some money for marketing seperately, since it'll be a year or more earlier. You will alsot have a presence in the VS marketing at a later date.