John,

Well, as I've suggested before this seems to boil down to a 'glass half full' vs a 'glass half empty' kind of discussion.

I'm quite content to be in the 'glass half full' camp, which BTW does not acxiomatically make me a MSFT shill, head-in-the-sand, boot licker or any of the other insinuated stereotypes. It makes me a lot happier at times it seems <g> and perhaps I sleep better at night and I am excited about the future (even though I think man will destroy himself at some point - I still have hope).

Complain away.. <g>

You're still welcome at Dodge Manor should you ever find your way to Utah. < bg >


>Doug
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>Sigh.
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>I don't accept that many of us expect MS to say VFP is better than VB or other MS products, any more than we expect Prince Charles to invite us round for dinner. If it happened we'd be pleased, but we're not keeping our diaries free.
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>What people want is some positivity in the market, in places OUR customers and potential customers might find it, not in places only we will find it.
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>On the basis that "no publicity is bad except an obituary notice", what I'd like is really pretty simple. Publicity in FPA are not "bad", but it isn't as "good" as publicity where one of my potential customers might see it.
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>It would also be nice if I could meet a MS person who does not damn VFP with faint praise... "yeah, VFP is quite a good product, not sure if it can use SQL Server though... but VB sure can."
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>Simple, really.
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>Repeated characterisations that portray the position as different from that, are getting a bit tiresome. Yes, I know it is easier to rebut if you can portray somebody as asking for the impossible, but after a while (and a few corrections) the novelty must wear off.
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>Regards
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>JR