John,

My "less than 10%" still makes me a winner! Waahooo!!!!!

Seriously, though, there may have been some underlying message in KenL's phraseology. What would be your interpretation?

cheers


>Jim
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>As of yesterday, MS calculates a user base close to 200,000. A certain FUDMeister recently decreed that the "active" FP community numbers only a few hundred. As that person claims that MS agrees with him, we can reasonably calculate that only 0.15% of FP people are active participants in the community.
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>Conclusion: if it is true that only 0.15% of FP users participate in the community, maybe "community pushing on MS" is the wrong tactic to support VFP.
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>Maybe we need to be pushing our peers and GROWING THE COMMUNITY so that we are a bit larger than Mr 0.15% . Maybe if we were "Mr 10%" we might get a better reception.
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>It seemed curions that KL would add the bit about "community size" as part of his note, I'd not seen that before in a vendor report re user base. I perceived that maybe KL was trying to get a point across to us.
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>Regards
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>JR