Dear John

Do we think we're stupid?

You must realise that there is nothing original about what you say. LOTS of people have said "move to VB" over the years. It was first said to me by a MS rep when VB3 first came out- almost a decade ago now. You were one of many. Now VB is dead. I got "move to Powerbuilder" from clients, thank heavens I didn't do that. I got "move to Delphi" from many of my colleagues. I got "move to Java" from almost every direction. Basically "everybody knew" same as you that VFP had had it and tried to "help" me. Now LOTS of people are saying "dotNET WOW!!!" So don't think for one second that there is anything special about your discovery that Microsoft's latest golden child is cool, MS itself has conveyed that to us thank you.

As for the VFP negativity, that's a well-worn carpet as well. People coming into FP forums to tell us about their amazing discovery of VFP's impending doom began a long time ago with JW almost a decade ago, Gartner and another fellow whose name I forget who used to SCREAM that everybody else was stupid except him. Maybe that was one of Jim Bob's aliases?

From my perspective, I'm not one to boast but I would make a bet that my personal income so far this this year from sticking to VFP is *orders of magnitude* greater than if I'd taken your advice and moved to VB when you said and to dotNET now. I've seen what happens when a previously productive firm becomes a hobby club for techo's whose "work" consists of musing about ways to reinvent wheels in the new tool and investigating complex ways to achieve what used to be simple. Al Doman has posted his similar experience. And even if I did move, none of my clients are ready for dotNET, most still use Word 97. There is NO WAY I will push those clients into dotNET.

You need to look in the mirror, we all know what you think of us and VFP so one wonders what you hope to achieve by pushing peoples' faces in it again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again, enthusiastically embracing whatever golden child MS comes up with as if "only you" have seen their hype.

Sheesh.

JR