>>The people MSFT is interested in selling VFP 8 to already use VFP.
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>What do you base this assertion on, or is it gratuitous? <g>


My garbled word order aside, I base it on induction; taking specific situations and inferring a general premise to form a rule. The specific actions I see reasonably lead me to the conclusions I have made. Given the nature of things, you can easily disagree and come to a different conclusion that is different than mine.


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Well, perhaps MSDN is a better medium of delivering VFP but the problem I see there is that when you do this you also distribute VB, MASM and so forth so your numbers can get skewed quite quickly. What direction they get skewed, if they do, is I suppose in the eye of the beholder. IOW, maybe all those MSDN subscriptions are VFP folks as opposed to VB folks and then we could say that VFP is outselling VB, if you catch my drift.
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I think you have to distinguish between the ends and the means. The specific tools and products in MSDN are the means, subscribing to MSDN is the end. I would bet that you would sell more MSDN by pitching the fact that products like VS .NET, the .NET platform, Office, etc are contained in MSDN as opposed to VFP. The only people the latter would have an effect on are VFP developers.

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I'd be surprised if there weren't other indicators that MSFT is using to guage the useage level of VFP, VB and the rest.
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