>Bill
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>I have to say that in the last 2 weeks, the media has finally done its job and presented less hype and more fact re dotNET. I suspect this was after "permission" was given by Bill Gates acknowledging difficulties.
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>Those who want MS to market VFP should read these articles. Other vendors are competing for MS developers, as long as we keep talking about dotNET as an exclusive migration path, MS is getting the result it wants and sees no need to change.

Well, it's MSFT that's talking about .NET as an exclusive migration path, not us. It used to be Access, VB/SQL, ADO, RDO, MTS, JET, COM, COM+, ODBC, DAO, VBScript, VBA, MSMQ, you name it...

Bill