... I use DevCon as my benchmark. It has steadily gone from 2500+ plus people to around 700 (from what I heard about this year).

I just read where Comdex went from 200,000 attendees to under 100,000 attendees. (and whilfest is averaging 300 every time). I believe if you added up all the fox attendees from ALL shows during one year, you may see a year to year decline but it would not be anymore than Comdex has fared.

Also the VFP book market has gone from probably 15+ books on Fox 2.x to maybe one now. I dont count whil's books here because I cannot generally find them in mass marketers of books (Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc.)

Pretty weak justification to exclude Whil's books and overall a pretty weak response to an thread that should also see decline in attendance.

Kevin