Steve,

I have to strongly disagree with you on this one. I know that you like to pay attention to detail, but while JVP's numbers might not be exact they point a trend which can not be ignored.

I can attest to the fact that I have watched VFP numbers go down thru the years. As I stated previously, there are some geographic areas where you will get 0 hits on VFP. At other times, VFP will show up as a "Plus" skill. I've seen one ad in the last several months where .Net was a "Plus" skill for a VFP job. Quite a few .Net or VB ads where VFP was the "Plus" skill. There is no way to spin that number.

I would expect that you will see .Net numbers go up while VFP will slightly decrease.

PF



>Fabricator! Nice research there, John.
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>I did the same search for .NET in PA on Dice.COM. You are correct: 33 hits. Including jobs whose only reference to .NET are the characters "NET" which includes words like
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Netegrity
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Intranet
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Net access
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GSM network
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Etc. Etc.
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>The vast majority of those 33 hits aren't .NET at all. Most of those are ".NET would be a plus" category and it's VS 6 work.
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>In other words, you didn't check your results before publishing them. Clearly on Dice .NET matches "network" and "Internet" and a slew of things that have nothing to do with .NET. So it's not 33, it's less than 10.
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>Are you always this sloppy with everything you post here? Apparently so.
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>FWIW, "Object Oriented" gets 22 hits in PA on Dice.COM. "Object Oriented AND .NET" (with Advanced -> boolean parsing selected, which appears to give more correct results) is 3 hits in PA on Dice.
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>Also FWIW, a seach of C# in PA on Dice.com comes up with 79 jobs!!!!!. Yet only one of the first 30 hits I briefly scanned is clearly for C#. The rest are all for C and C++. Therefore it appears the "#" character isn't significant on Dice.com, just like the "." in ".NET" doesn't appear to be significant either.
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>Keep it real.
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>**--** Steve
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>>I peruse places like Dice.com everyonce in a while to see what dotnet skills people are looking for.
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>>Across all regions...
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>>59 hits for FoxPro
>>1074 hits for VB
>>637 hits for .NET
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>>In PA (my state):
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>>1 hit for FoxPro
>>51 hits for VB
>>33 hits for .NET
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>>Enough Said... Of course, it is probably me scaring all the FoxPro jobs away...< s >...
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>>On Monster.COM
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>>Accross all regions
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>>145 hits for Fox
>>469 hits for .NET
>>1237 hits for VB
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>>In PA/Philly area
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>>6 hits for FoxPro
>>6 hits for .NET
>>27 hits for VB
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>>The tell tale sign is looking at the job descriptions. The jobs for Fox for most required skills in other areas besides fox.
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>>Granted, this is not the sole source... but I believe it reflects the relevant overall trend...

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