JVP

I don't think it is fair to claim that MS has not been open until now if you have messages from 1998 like this. I have messages from 1995 saying similar.

In fact, the only truly "optimistic" message I remember from MS was when it bought FP and installed Dr Dave in a database management position. That gave me hope. Hope was completely dashed in 1995 when we were led to expect a glorious VFP3 launch and witnessed... a damp squib.

For all of those 7 years since then, we've had prophets of doom predicting that the sky will fall. Parts of the sky have certainly fallen while other parts have been torn down by people who then said "see, I told you so" but this thread demonstrates that there is still a lot of blue up there.

Finally: for those of us committed to VFP, IMHO dotNET gives us a BREATHING SPACE. It does not represent the sky falling faster, it represents an opportunity for the quick to DELIVER to customers who do not want to wait for dotNET, it delivers an opportunity for those who want to share the grass in the dotNET paddock to be herded in along with all the other newcomers.

I really wish you'd give the "you're doomed!" FUD a break. We are not stupid children, we can all see what you see, you are not the television to package it all up for us and instruct us what to think.

JR