>Allan,
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>>Hi Doug,
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>>I respect your point of view, even though I don't necessarily agree with all your comments. Let's call and end to this - we could go back and forth on this forever. And ... I need to get some work done.
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>>Al
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>I also respect your POV as well, but if you could, at some point, let me know what you think. You aren't ducking me here, are you? <g> Other than talking about the issue what are you going to do about it, or what do you think people should do about it?

Doug,

I thought I had said what I was going to do about it... Continue to use the product to develop slick applications - all the while having to defend my choice of development tool to pointy-headed consultants who scratch their heads in bewilderment when they find out that these applications were developed with VFP.


>That's what I'm getting at. I think Michael Asherman (sp?) wants to write a sort of community letter. That's doing something, though I'm not convinced myself it's the best route yet.
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>I'm working very hard to make a current project successful, that if I succeed will help to make VFP-centric solutions far more visible. I think that is the best approach but I could be wrong. Wouldn't be the firat or last time I suppose.. <g>

I hope that your project is a great success and that you trumpet to all who will listen that one of the major reasons contributing to it's success is the power of the development tool used to create it. Hopefully you won't have to pitch your solution to a company that hires a pointy-headed consultant to give them an independant opinion - and rather than base his recommendations on the excellent solution you have developed, instead focuses on the tool that it was developed in.... eeeewwwww, FoxPro. I sincerely hope that isn't a bridge you have to cross in marketing your product, because if it is, the pointy-headed consultant will only know about DOTNET - because that will be all he has heard about.


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>Thanks for the discussion...