>Hi Ken
>Doing a search for 'foxpro' or 'vfp' in the Microsoft Israel website ( www.microsoft.com/israel ), you do not see any mention of VFP. Also, VFP does not figure in the main developers page at the same site. I tried to contact them a few monthes ago and even proposed to help them with case studies or big projects i created here with VFP, but they still did not change this.
>I think Israel could be an excellent market for VFP, but when i talk with the IT managers in the big companies, i always get the same answer, i.e: "VFP is an excellent tool, but we don't see here enough programmers, and they barely know VFP7 at Microsoft Israel..."
>This is very frustrating for me, specially when i know you can do just about anything you can imagine in VFP, and now even more with Web Sevices...
>
>JFYI
>Hope i'll be able to make it to DevCon and see you guys...


Hi Jaime,
Don't worry, the situation in Bulgaria is worst than in Israel. Microsoft Bulgaria interested only how many Windows and Offices you can sell. When you explain them that there are other products and development of IS with VFP and SQLServer will rise demand for WinOS and Office, their answer is - "If you like our support sign a contract how many WinOS and Offices you will sell". That is the reason most of the product in government administration to be done in Oracle and PowerBuilder or Delphi.
This misunderstanding creates first negative result – Telecommunication company (BTC) after implementing of HP servers with UnixOS begin redevelopment of their IS, which was done with FP2.5. They lost a lot of license of Win SVR and SQLServer leading that stupid strategy.