>Will,
>
>Honestly wouldn't have a clue. Remember, that would be just to buy the product - then you need working capital plus all of the attendent expenses of marketing and so forth..
>
>Let's just let MSFT do this IMO..

Oh, I don't know. If we could then just get everybody to upgrade to VFP7 .....

Alan

>
>>Doug,
>>
>>Do you or anyone know how many FoxPro dvelopers are out there? How about if all of them chipped in? Would a $1000.00 a head get us close to a reasonable figure?
>>
>>>Will,
>>>
>>>>Come on all, lets start a fund to buy FoxPro from Microsoft! How much do you think they would want for it?
>>>
>>>Ok.. You put up the first 300 million. <g> FYI, MSFT paid almost 200 million about 10 years ago for Fox. I figure they'd want about 8-900 million for it now, particularly since the developers have incorporated Rushmore into Jet and so forth...
>>>
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