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>>>There is no evidence that it is sinking... only speculation.
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>>You really think that VFP is marketed outside the VFP community?
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>Marketing and sinking are two different things...

That does'nt look like an answer to my question but if you think it is...

>>How can you say that this is based on speculation and rumor. To me it's a fact that lack of new versions on a development tool makes it less powerful than new development tools. Do you really think that there are many new projects beings developed with FoxBase instead of VFP?
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>What lack of new versions? Since I started working with FoxPro (2.6 windows - 1994), I participated in the beta of VFP3 and went to the DevCon in San Diego where they released it. They have since 1995 released VFP 5.0, VFP 6.0, VFP 7.0, and are writing VFP 8.0.

We can't change the past. Yes they did well in the past. I prefer looking for what could come in the future. And to me it does'nt look so bright. Lots of marketing efforts on .Net Not much on VFP.


>>As a developer what do you prefer to do. Support old applications where you can't touch the most recent cool things or learn a new development tools where there is no restrictions?
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>I have never been restricted... I have been using the latest versions of VFP and other tools as well. And BTW, VFP is not the be-all-end-all... there are some pretty "cool things" out there in other languages.

So we get back to another answer I gave you. VFP does the job so do other tools. But in certain cases VFP is the perfect choice based on one person's experience and the application needing to be developed. There's a high probability that the tools with the worst marketing won't make it.