>>Analysis: Nice to see some pub for Eric Rudder as well as VFP and the
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>Who is He (OK, I know the article gave a brief bio, but I've never heard of him before. Also:

As I said in another message (probably last week), Eric Rudder was the Group Program Manager (I think that's the right title) for the Fox team during the building of VFP 3. That is, he was the guy in charge of the overall design of the product.

I agree with you that he wasn't responsible for creating the overall sense of community that we have. However, he was responsible for VFP 3 being such a terrific product (okay, having such a terrific design). Without that, the move from FP2.x to VFP would have been ever more difficult than it was and the community likely would have dissipated.

Tamar