Claude,

That would be the key question if one was always following rather than leading.

And I would bet that if some competitor did have a "trial version" available then VFP would already have one.

I thought that Fernando was trying to propose FRESH ideas to promote VFP and this one seemed interesting to me. But I do think it would need an additional bit of documentation to help a novice see the good spots quickly.

Jim Nelson

>The key questions,IMO, is if VFP's competitors (BTW, who are they, Delphi?) are doing this and would it help in any way to draw new users. To me, it almost seems like there's more competition between VB and VFP and .Net and VFP than between VFP and any other non-Microsoft vendor...
>>>>some kind of "Visual FoxPro 7.0, trial version"...
>>>
>>>Ken, I'm thinking in all ways I can imagine to push FoxPro and spread its utilization in Brazil. This was one, sorry if it seemed stupid, but I won't rest and will try to bring new ideas to UT folks apreciation, perhaps some of them can be used.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Fernando
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>>The idea, by itself, isn't bad, IMO. dBASE III had some sort of evaluation version (?) or student edition (?) with severe record limitations (it wouldn't allow you to create more than 100 records, if I remember correctly).
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>>Some key features might be disabled or severely restricted in a trial edition (especially data: records per table, bytes per table, tables per database, ..., or programmatically: number of variables, etc.).
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>>Hilmar.