Jerry,

>Dave,
>I would certainly see to it that I had more than one tool in my box.
>But, as far as VFP being around... Have you noticed that DOS is still with us?
>I have no doubt that when I retire in 10-15 years I will still be maintaining 'legacy' VFP apps, be they from version 6 or 7 or 8. I think version 8 may be the last one, but the nice thing, IMO, is that Microsoft has pulled VFP out of the the Visual Studio .NET group. It won't go down when the .NET comes crashing down. Any company foolish enough to put their data onto the Microsoft ".NET" deserves to lose control of it, just the way Microsoft handed their family jewels over to the Russian hackers. Fat-client-server solutions to business problems will be around for a while.
>
>By the way, have you seen the licensing provisions of Microsoft's "Passport" websites? The contents of any mail or data that passes through their domain becomes their property. That's going to blow up in their face big time.
>JLK

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re: email licensing

No kidding?!?!?

That will indeed get ugly IMO..