Doug

Your ad hominam labelling of "emotional" and "sky falling" and "fretting" and all the rest of it, is beneath you. It also comes across as ever so slightly smug.

I, too, am fairly secure whatever happens to VFP. More so that you might think. But I happen to have a great deal of valuable code tied up in VFP. As long as that code generates $ and the product is technically suitable I don't want to have to change- I already tried that once.

Nor do I want to be an island though, Doug. there are lots of contractors and employees out there hurting. Can you not hear that? If they go away, where will I find staff? Do I want to be a lonely bastion of nihilistic conservatism? I think not.

My belief at present is that marketing to business decisionmakers is sorely needed. Based on past performance I don't believe MS has any intention of doing that. So I'm making sure that a few ads in FPA or consumer IT rags is not cast as a serious marketing campaign. Whether I'm right or wrong does not matter a jot as long as people watch what happens.

If that causes you to say I'm fretting, so be it.

Regards

JR