John,

>Perry
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>FWIW, if you want to look in Compuserve archives you will see that "John Ryan" and others began urging MS to market VFP better in 1994-1995. Even then FP was increasingly marginalised and a perceived risk for middle management. You will also see that "internal MS marketing" is not a new idea, a group of us also urged that back in 1995.
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>It looks as if Ken Levy is actually having a crack at internal marketing as opposed to the soothing soundbites we got before and the "tell me the names of MS staff who badmouth VFP so I can do nothing" sort of stuff.

I really don't know the reason for the corporate abandoning of VFP as a tool. I know that I had at least one interview at a very large corporation where I was told that they were thinking about looking at other tools because someone had created a bad app in Foxpro and Foxpro was blamed for the app not working properly.

But I do know that it will be extremely difficult to get these people back.

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>In hindsight, I lost a year by leaping to Java before it was a proven tool and before its bugs had been ironed out by other leapers.
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I've been meaning to ask you why you keep bemoaning your experience with Java. It still seems to be an extremely popular language to me. At least 2 years ago I heard that Oracle plus Java experience was the hot ticket for finding work.

>IMHO it would behove all of us, not just those who contract, to review dotNET and java. Instead of playing AOE in the evenings, a bit of cursing over C# is probably a better option. < g >

Hey!!! I resemble that remark.

PF