>Mike,
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>>Hi Jeff,
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>>We're not looking for a whole lot of marketing effort from MS for VFP. What's the harm in their allowing us to market it for them? Do you really buy the argument that selling VFP without effort hurts MS? If that's the case they should kill it outright, not string us along with a misleading story about the wonderfulness of the forthcoming VFP8. Why not just let evolution and market forces make the determination about VFP's future, instead of wasting money and pissing people off with a doomed, self-contradictory strategy?
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>>Mike
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>I think that's a great idea. Nancy Folsom apparently did a VFP demo at a VB user's group with great success. "Wow, I didn't know FoxPro could do that", was a common response.
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I honestly believe that Microsoft will start promoting VFP more aggressively in the near future and I'll bet you'll be happy about it.
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>Why? Well, various reasons - one of which is that I think that with VFP7 (and soon VFP8) that FoxPro will finally (Yes, I said that <g>) start to get the marketing attention it deserves.
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>I plan to be as ready as I can to give people a place where they can point to and say, "If you want to see where VFP does 'world class' stuff, go there.")


Or, MS could just be using VFP as a headlight to keep the VB coders frozen on MS Dev tools while they complete their C#-.NET plans.... then drop VFP like a hot potato.

BTW, I can't remember where I read it but I read that Fawcette Publications is dropping Visual Basic Developer's Journal and will be publishing something called "Visual Source .NET" or something like that.