>>My conclusion: it's another sop. No effort will be made to reach business decisionmakers who are the ones who need targeting. Instead they'll target us and VB people who have no clout or effect on perception of the product.

>Isn't this premature speculation considering the product hasn't even been released yet?

John;

Glad to have you in my time zone. Hope you enjoy your new position and are soon together with your family.

This thread reminds me of the rats on the Titanic. There were two groups of rats – one stating that the ship could not be sunk and the other group stating “get ready to bail out of here – just in case”. Seems like an analogy between rats on the Titanic and Visual FoxPro developers. The truth is we will not know until it happens and in the mean time we can speculate – for what that is worth (zilch or 0).

I think we all agree that we would like to see some positive moves by Microsoft towards “introducing” Visual FoxPro into the business world. Somehow I feel some progress will be made towards this dream but I reserve the right to use other development tools.

Tom