I saw this and couldn't resist myself. Click the link and then read the excerpt from a devx thread.

Sorry John. <BBG>

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Author:John V. Petersen (jpetersen@mainlinesoftware.com)
Date: 07/12/2000 at 8:06 AM
OK...

5 years ago, the paid subscription of FPA was close to 20K. Now, it is
around 8K. FoxTalk at the beginning had a paid subscription of 9K. Now, that
number is down to just over 1K (1,400 or so to be exact...)

From a developer conference standpoint, in 1993 there were 3K attendees.
Today, you are lucky to get slightly over 1K to DevCon.

Where once there were several books published by major publisher on Fox,
today there are none. We have pulled the plug on our 7 book. Reports are
that Que is not going to do another Using... book.