Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
Does anyone remember John V. Petersen?
Message
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00717583
Message ID:
00720858
Views:
13
Hi Jim,
Just wanted to chime in here with my 2cents. FWIW this book was at the contract stage with JVP and Myself. A decisiit on was made that the market for VFP books didnt warrant doing this book. Plain and simple it takes a heck of a long time to write a book and it was not worth the time for the financial reward.

I don't know if Que ever replaced this book. I seriously doubt that they did. Any current analysis of the VFP8 market shows it in steady decline. Numerous naysayers will deny that VFP is in a decline. Use DevCon as an example, use # of issues of FoxTalk or Fox Advisor, use the number of books (ones you see at the bookstore) as benchmarks. Anyone that tells you otherwise is in serious denial. This is why there will probably, be no que book.

As for this threads drift into a JVP SLAMFEST. For the most part JVP was a valuable resource to the community. JVP wrote one a leading paper on ADO and VFP, co-authored 2 books, spoke at numerous conferences and was also a VFP instructor. Yes he did spout some opinions that people didnt agree with and he was removed from this forum on a technicality. FWIW history will be the one true measure of what JVP was saying.

I know that I was responsible for the last thread discussing JVP as MIA. I did that to point out that his voiced was silenced and that if you dont agree with the common opinion your voice will be silenced too.

Thanks
Rodman
Rod Paddock
Editor in Chief CoDe Magazine
President Dash Point Software, Inc.
VP Red Matrix Technologies,Inc.
Previous
Next
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform