>Hi David,
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>Pardom me if I lead to misunderstandings due to my short quotation of your column. I understood you were pointing to FoxPro as a choice to complement dotNET, but that made me feel as a converted FoxPro developer wondering about the new world of choices I would have...
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>As I told in my message, "About a week ago I received my first CoDe issue" and perhaps reading Jerry's message triggered what you called an "identity crisis" :))
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>I don't know if I'm getting paranoic <g>, but any place I look at (in the FoxPro world) I see dotNET, it makes me feel that I MUST go dotNET right now! And browsing CoDe I just saw dotNET. Maybe I was expecting to see some kind of FoxPro magazine... Anyway I added: "...if their last issue is any measure..."
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>>...thanks for including me in "some of the most outstanding folks in our community". :-)
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>No thanks needed, you are one of the most outstanding folks in our community.

Fernando,

Don't be paranoid. It is great that CoDe informs us about .NET because it is done by true Fox experts, which will balance their reporting. I don't think they will settle for cute but inferior characteristics. Maybe thay can even influence the way .NET evolves.

.NET still has a long way to go in order not to end up like the Edsel. The difference is MS has a lot riding on it, including ego, and they have a lot of money. But history shows they are smart and pragmatic. We'll see. I am sitting this one out.

Alex