Tracy
>>we benefited when VFP was included in Visual Studio. It was a much easier sell as our tool of choice when it appeared to be part of an accepted and standardized package.<<
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Agreed. I hope you'll agree that was a "holding pattern" that allowed us to say we wrote in "Visual Studio" rather than "Visual Foxpro", thereby papering over the cracks.
I'm trying to be blunt here rather than negative. It's so easy to be negative and to predict doom. We are not "doomed" but we certainly can't afford to be complacent either. MS needs to know we are aware, watchful and suspicious, we are not lulled to sleep by slogans.
regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
