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VFP advertisements in CoDe magazine for one. I pick up the CoDe thats closest to me (looks like Nov/Dec 2001) and there is not a single VFP article, however, the first two pages are a big advertisment for VFP 7.0. An an effort to promote VFP in a signifcant fashion to the outside world.
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Whenever a new version of a product is released, there are always advertisements about the new version.


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Looks like you'll have to give up this arugument based on the above evidence. Hmmm, doesn't leave you with much, huh?
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I asked for serious efforts. Advertisements that highlight the new version of VFP don't cut it. But, assuming it did, I think if you go back to the ads for VFP 6, there were more of those in non-VFP oriented magazines. Not that I would call Code Magazine VFP-oriented, it has a disproportionate about of VFP advertisers that make it VFP-oriented at least to a degree. The fact that there are no VFP articles should get you to do some thinking however.

Show me sustained effort in a non-VFP source and you might begin to convince me.

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Given the chioce, MS would rather see Word users than Works users. XP Pro users than XP Home users. Outlook users than Outlook Express users. C# users than VC++ users or JScript.NET users. Whats your point?
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My point is that MS is not interested in seeing the market place for VFP grow.


>>When I say dotNET, I mean to imply VS .NET. I will be sure to clarify this in the future.
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>You see Visual Studio .NET ads on TV? I don't watch TV but I find that hard to believe. All the ads I have seen are simply for the .NET intiative. You can't confuse marketing campaigns between a wide spreading intiative and a single product.
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I see a lot of .NET ads with the Actor William H. Macy doing the voice over. They may not be VS .NET ads per se, but they are .NET ads nontheless. If the single product goes to support that same wide spreading iniative, I don't a significant or material difference.


>>And fwiw, the real platform that counts is Windows...
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>Windows and .NET will be one in the same.

I agree wit this...