>>>No this is not happens only in Canada, you well know my summer comments, what happens in Bulgaria. Microsoft Bulgaria organizes their User Group, where they discuss only .Net and push clients to that platform.
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>>Ok, I understand that. But, did you get the feeling they were causing your group some problems or were trying to compete against it by cutting the relationship with your user group leaders, putting their dates just in front of your meetings, etc.?
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>They push clients in .Net, which force developers to go in that side. The attendants begin to visit only the meeting of MS UG. With MS paid speakers you already strike. In poor country like my own, you can guess alone what the result is.

Venelina;

The result is the same in Silicon Valley. Our company even had speakers from Microsoft come to tell us all about .NET. VFP is not an option and is not promoted by Microsoft. Corporations listen to Microsoft and the word is go .NET. How can you go wrong by following the advice of Microsoft? Where does Microsoft spend its money? On promoting VFP or .NET? It can all be so much fun. :)

Tom