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Visual FoxPro
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>>>April is an option, but we used that for XML Connections and ASP Connections.
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>>PMFJI. Why weren't the ASP/XML people in with the VS/VFP conference in May? Also, why not put us all in one big conf in April?
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>And if it's the time to start complaining my pet peeve here, is an old one (and not Markus's fault or anything but the marketing people's - again - < groan >)
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>Why did the ads for the DevConnections (VB/VC++/SQL Server) did not mention VFP when they were all running concurrently, in the same place, at the same time and everybody could jump sessions between them?
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>Not only SQL and VB attendees were surprised to see so many VFP'ers (and a roudy bunch we were) but surprised to see them at all when they did not know by the advertising pieces they saw.


I know you guys hate to hear that, but whenever we advertise a VFP conference at the same time as as VB or ASP conference, VB and ASP attendance numbers go down. The same is also true the other way around...

Markus




Markus Egger
President, EPS Software Corp
Author, Advanced Object Oriented Programming with VFP6
Publisher, CoDe Magazine
Microsoft MVP since 1995
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