That's not very active. What about their attendance at other conferences? It might serve to show VFP as an important strateegery if he or another top level official could attend one this year. Not a cure all just a single suggestion.

>>Considering Robert Green and the VFP Team members are monitoring these threads how bout you guys inivte your bosses to come along to a Microsoft sponsored VFP conference too? Recently Mr Balmer gave a keynote at a VB conference why can't he come to a VFP event? Has he or Gates _ever_ attended a VFP conference? I wonder which conferences for which MS products they attend or have attended. It might go a long way just to have them there and give a keynote. The bath water is gone (not in the box-VS.NET) but the baby is still very much alive!
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>Steve Balmer was the keynote speaker at one of the DevCons a few years ago, I don't recall which one (San Diego '97?). Bill Gates did a video for one in '93 at Orlando, before he got married.