>>>VFP is not being marketed in a mass way to attract significant new developers in regions that it is no currently used.
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>>Would you be prepared to disclose your "marketing mission statement", if there is one?
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>>It appears that you don't expect to secure voluminous sales to new users so, is marketing solely aimed at existing users to secure upgrades? Maybe you could avoid fruitless requests for VFP representation in "this place" or "that place" by being crystal clear as to exactly what you hope/intend to achieve by your marketing initiatives. It must be frustrating for you to keep answering questions that need not be asked in the first place.
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>The primary efforts around VFP marketing target existing VFP customers. The amount spent on VFP marketing not exceed the revenue generated from VFP since it is a very mature product. More details will be discussed and disclosed at DevCon in a couple of months.

Yes you are right. MS do not make revenue from VFP, because it is RAD tools and a few buyers (mainly professional developers) buy it. But after creating of stable, well done IS it lead to additional sales of WinOS, Office, other MS or Win Based (like GIS, Video,...)products. In reality we develop other markets. Without IS done with strong database tools there are not WinSvr and SQLSvr sales. If the same project is done with DB2 or Oracle and UnixSvr, what will cumber them to put on their desktops Linux and StarOffice.
Loss will come later.
Does not supporting developer market especially database one, which is backbone of every IS MS will strike lost market share in all other products.