Fernando

There is a difference between the bespoke (custom) development market and the product market.

If you are selling products, if they are first rate and meet customer need, and if you are a credible business, then the customer will buy. Development tool is way down the list of decision points. I think this is Wayne Myers' experience.

If you are doing custom development, you have an issue that extends beyond VFP. It is most unlikely that bespoke development will proceed at the pace it did through the 90's. Companies with solid win32 apps are not going to queue up to have them rewritten just because a new tool has appeared. If everybody is converging on dotNET and Java/Linux then there is a serious oversupply issue on the horizon. IMHO getting all excited about the need to get into that paddock so you can share the grass with the rest of the herd, is not the smartest thing I ever heard.

IMHO contractors need to broaden skills not only to new tools but to whole new roles- say project planning, software architecture, management, web design as opposed to programming, or business analysis. People who used to just program are most likely going to have multiple roles, some technical, some management or creative.

Either that, or contractors should band together to commercialise their best products so they can join the Wayne Myers experience.

Regards

JR