>>Would VFP be more widely used if MS had equally divided the advertising budget between VB-Access-SQL-VFP four or five years ago and continued that approach. My guess it that it would.
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>Allan;
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>Add "education budget for microsoft sales types". There was a consultant (Access) at my company who had been here for six years. I have been here for just over a year. The consultant proudly announced to me she was responsible for the company not using VFP. All VFP projects were converted to Access.
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I know the person at MS who is in charge of sales person education. Guess what... he's an old Fox guy! He recently moved into that position. Let's see if anything happens there.