Hi Tom,

>I do believe that .NET has a lot of very interesting a worthwile attributes.
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>However, I do seem to recall that the transition from FP to VFP resulted in the loss of something like 75% of the Fox developers. The OOP paradigm shift was apparently too much for a lot of folks.

There was another very serious factor - the projected demise of FP/VFP (Gartner et. al.). Coupled with lots of PowerBuilder and Delphi PR at the time, many used the opportunity to move elsewhere.

A considerable number too, I think, were 'stuck' at the FPD/FPW state simply because their shops were running along nicely as-is and/or there is a wider-than-many-think prohibition against implementing a first release of anything.


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