>>The more sales there are of VFP, the more marketing that will occur in the future and the more resources for the product development. I
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>Hi, Ken.
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>Let me disagree a little. I think the way the things must go is right the oppose... "make marketing for sale a product", and not "sale a product to get resource to make marketing"...
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>there´s not even a trial version for people to get to know VFP; nobody will buy something without even get a try... and without marketing, how Microsoft is planning to increase VFP sales...? Sorry, but I cannot see how... I hate to see VS.NET in every damn hole, and not to see VFP. At least in USA you do have conferences, adds on magazines, etc... and what about other countries??

That's the way I always see this too, Claudio. But much of the world seems to be heading upside-down these days, so I guess we shouldn't be too surprised at this new view of things.