Ken,
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>Having VFP at a non-VFP conference doesn't work, people don't go to the sessions. A few years ago at TechEd when over 10,000 people attended, there was a VFP session and only 30 people went to it, a complete waste of time. The PDC would have the same results. People don't just switch development tools that easily. I'm being honest and direct about things like this because I feel it is important that VFP developers are more realistic about their thinking on topics such as this.

You are undoubtedly correct, Ken, except for one important aspect. . .

The presence of VFP there - on the agenda, in the signage, in giveaways - gives HUGE audiences who might otherwise not know confirmation that VFP is still a MS product and still growing.

All of a sudden you have 10,000 less people going around thinking that VFP is a long-gone product!

It doesn't matter that only 30 people might actually attend. Those who don't attend, the other 9,970 or so, will have no idea of that fact and likely will assume that as many people attended VFP session(s) as they saw in the session they were in concurrently.

This surely has to be a real inexpensive way to get some critical non-VFP-user exposure with that all important message that "the best is yet to come".

I think that this is a very legitimate course of action and I hope that you'll reconsider your position on the matter.

Jim Nelson