Fernando

Maybe the point I was after was a bit colloquial, I was trying to say that if we cannot change that VFP is regarded as Obsolete in many quarters, maybe we need to take it on and package it as a "feature".

Steven Black has 2 wiki articles asking whether customers want ever-new products or whether they prefer stability. My customers prefer stability, having suffered the pains of unstable newness they have learnt to wait and watch. Many of them still use Word97, for example and I don't think any have moved to WinXP. These are very large hospitals with large IT budgets.

Maybe "tried and true" should be our motto rather than "bleeding edge". We could try "yes, VFP's web page rendering mechanism has been tested and proven for 10 years, that's why it is so stable and fast. It won't hog resources or take down your server. You won't need service packs every 5 minutes. You won't see wierd bugs that won't be fixed till February with SP3." Or "Yes, VFP does have native data technology that dates back to 1988, that's why we can process your backend data so accurately and quickly."

Sort of like the TV ad where a successful Equestrian outfit that started decades ago and has grown huge still buys Chevvy Suburbans, the technology has changed but the tradition and quality is timeless. You don't have to jump to every new fad to enjoy progress, stability has value.

Re criticisms: having received private messages with obscene threats from Joe Bob and been called nice names like "whore" because I pulled him up for gratuitous criticisms of VFP, no I did not think you were criticising me. Though if you did, I'd be a lot more concerned than being called names by Joe Bob. < g >

Regards

JR