Something else that I've not seen discussed at all. You can tell from looking at the pictures here, and looking at the makeup of the crowds at conferences, that the Foxpro crowd is older.

The VB crowd is skewed younger. Of course part of the reason being that VB is taught in schools. Younger people are much more likely to be willing to learn new things.

PF

>Hi Tom,
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>>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.
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>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.
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>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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>SNIP