The book is great news, James; but let's remember not to feed the trolls. I've enjoyed the calm here since August and don't want it perturbed.

Alex

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

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>http://www.quepublishing.com/content/images/0789725983/0789725983.jpg
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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.