Denis,

>Perhaps he does. And if (that would surprised me a lot) he does'nt then the others responsible should identify themselves.

Isn't Robert Green Ken's boss and Eric Rudder Robert's boss?

Robert already wrote "Hard Truth Number 3 and 5", think if nothing changed he hasn't to say a word about this subject (only if he wants, of course).

>Until now no one else besides Ken answered those questions. So I think we can assume that he is the only person responsible on that topic.

Big companies as governments always have people (spokesman?) to put their face in the window to be slaped by the crowd and get happy. I'm not sure this is the case, indeed.

Remember what happenned to FoxBASE (DOS & Unix) and FoxPro (DOS)? When MS discarded them, Recital Corporation adopted them (in a sense), maybe that'll happen to Visual FoxPro in the future. Who knows? BTW, why MS doesn't sell it? (think this subject already was discussed here in UT).

>And the user base is scared regularly so the the community has to lose members so we only have to hope that the VFP community willl still be big enough for a long time to justify development of new versions of VFP.

The community is not growing, it is shrinking. My guess! You constantly hear words like "I'm adding more tools to my toolbox...", "it's good to learn new technologies, not just VFP..." etc etc. For me all that are euphemisms for "I'm leaving!!!".

While other tools are incorporating new functionalities, features, technologies etc, seems to me that VFP developers need to add "more tools" to their toolbox to do the same. (I know what's in VFP 7, I bought the book "What's New in Visual FoxPro 7.0" to learn about, and...?) There will be a time in the near future that you'll leave VFP and will stay with the "other tools". This is the way I see things are evolving.