This is a good point. I have already starting seeing job notices for developers to convert VB6 apps to VB.NET in North Carolina and elsewhere advertised. This really surprised me as I expected businesses to wait at least a year or more before even considering it--especially if the system is working as is. Makes you wonder where is the business sense in converting now? No experience .NET developers are available and there is no longterm success stories in business with .NET yet. Talk about jumping the gun! Yet, to be marketable, your OWN arsenal needs to encompass more than VFP alone if you want a longterm career in development and you are not a consultant who can choose the tool of your choice.

Tracy

>Kevin,
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>Having a VFP alone in your arsenal creates fear in your heart because VFP's future is blurred.
>Noone can remove your fear than you yourself. Try to be pro-active rather than reactive. Learn .Net language or Java or any language that have BRIGHTER future than VFP. While VFP is good, it's future is blurred by many factors. This problem has been around for quite sometime. The VFP market share has been significantly dropped resulting to dropped no. of developers embracing it. From a manager's standpoint, why embracing a tool that in the future it's hard to find developers supporting it? Sustainability is one of the issue here. While it is true that there are still some coming in the fold but in my observation it is outnumbered by those coming out. I don't have the numbers but I am just trying to be realistic with what I observed. How many development companies in our area are started switching to another language? I knew lot's of them. I hate and it's painful to say that our company is one of them. While all our softwares are VFP founded but since the trend in the coming
>years will be .NET, J2EE platforms, we are alerted with this scenario. And so we must do something now...
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>You can make a difference. IMO, MS will stick to their business track. Their concern is bigger that what we think and that concern is not just VFP's future but competitiveness...
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>Good luck...
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>>Hi
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>>I know this has probably been said before.
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>>The Fox Team at MS is doing a great job with VFP and (to me) it's future seems more brighter and it's nice to see more articles/memos on the web about Fox.
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>>However, there are still people out there who simply will not budge from their belief that FoxPro's future is uncertain. Time and time again I get confronted with the same old cr*p and have to explain why what they're saying is merely a rumour and that there is no evidence to back up their claim.
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>>Personally, I think it is quite an impossible task to remove the chip from these people's shoulders.
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>>Does anyone think this may be a prime concern for MS, or will they proceed as they have done to promote Fox and the killing of the rumours would be just an added bonus?
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>>Kev