I'm a trained observer. I watch what people say, and what they do, with more emphasis on the "what they do" than the other. After watching all this back and forth on whether or not VFP should be in the box or out of the box, and seeing how the "players" in this arena are leaning, I've come to a conclusion. VFP is out of the box. Robert Green as much as said so in his postings here on the UT. So, let's get that out in the open and move forward.

I think the telling tale will be how much marketing is done on a standalone VFP. Will MS go after that group of people whose data needs are less than SQL Server with VFP? How will the VFP users see this move? Will it force many to leave the product for something else (like there is something else)? Ok, ok, they can go to Access (ughhh), VB, Delphi, Clarion, etc.

I also predict that since it's coming out of the box (notice I'm not even entertaining a notion that it won't) and it's basically a finished product, that it will ship around May's Devcon.

Having asserted all the above - I'm here to support the move. Even though I voted to leave it in the box and ship it early, I am not going to try to swim against a tidal wave. Let's hope MS will finally market VFP as they should have years ago.

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