Dear JVP

Hate to say it... but I have no recollection of a JVP at all when a group of us confronted MS in 1995-1996. I recall your asking in 2000 who Jeff Winchell and Fabian Pascal were- surely anybody who was active in the groups pre 1996 knows that. I think your "last 3 years" feels closer to the mark; but that's not so special, a *lot* of us had responded to the cues and moved on by then.

As for moving to Java; the "mistake" was not because Java was fragmented (whatever that means) but because it was TOO EARLY. If I'd waited for Beans or J2EE it might be a different story.

I note that the market has not leapt gleefully onto dotNET as predicted. It is showing some caution- how sensible, exactly as advocated by a group of us but not you. Nevertheless in a year or five when dotNET has picked up I expect we'll see you boasting "see, I've been saying this since 2001!"

There are two extremes when considering VFP. The range goes from "VFP is stuffed, move on" to "The best is yet to come!" As always, truth sits somewhere in the middle and those on the extremes boast whenever *anything* seems to support their point of view.

The best advice to VFP people is STAY PRODUCTIVE while you broaden your skills. I've not seen ANYBODY disagree with that.

Beyond that is speculation and disservice.

Regards

JR