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>Also, the number of users on the UT is not really a yardstick on which to base a buying decision. It may be a factor when considering peer support though. However, Codemine has great support too. Dave Lehr at Soft Classics is very responsive to support requests via e-mail. This service has always been there and it is free. There are also an awfull lot more Codemine users nowadays, and a lot of them hang on the UT (yours truly <s>).

I agree wholeheartedly, I would add to this that the amount of peer-level support on the UT is not always good indicator as some frameworks have their own forum that is manned 24/7 by both the provider of the framework and peer developers like Visual FoxExpress (my favorite :o).

I also have to add that I think Steve Black gave you the best advice I have seen on frameworks. You also might want to check with developers that are using a framework in a developer-shop versus a single developer situation as it may have a bearing down the road if you have more than one developer working on the same project.

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