Craig
>>What specifically did they say and how recent was it?
I'm surprised Craig Berntson does not know this. Gartner stated categorically that VFP is not a viable choice for new development. It came to my attention in the Gartner Healthcare IT bulletin taken by some of my clients. I first heard of it in or around 1996-1997 and the sentiment has been recycled several times since.
Like most significant statements, this one continues to reverberate because it was not effectively rebutted by MS at the time and Gartner has seen no need to say different.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1