All good stuff.
I hope you've voted (main page, right side).


>>In the very long thread started last night about various topics in regards to user groups and related activities, it came in the subject that it would be interesting to know who would be in favor of having the VFP 8 naming to be geared toward .NET. As the product integrates extremely well with .NET, several members came to the conclusion that it could well be represented in the name. This would not entail any functional changes to the product, but purely a change in the way that VFP is presented and marketed. Instead of being an adversary of .NET, VFP would become a part of it, thereby changing both people's perception of VFP and the VFP community's perception about .NET. You are invited to cast your vote. This will be greatly appreciated.<
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>We just spent this snowy morning talking about how companies market software concepts and how customers buy the marketing hype and not necessarily the technology. Apparently if you tell someone there is one solution to all of their problems they will go for it. It puts a "we've gotta have it" thought in the customers mind.
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>Anyone paying attention to the IBM ads . . pixie dust, magic business binoculars? They tell you there is no such thing. . .and then offer to sell you their solution which you are led to believe is "real". Does any of this make sense? Of course not. But we don't sell to people like us.
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>The .NET platform or framework or strategy or whatever we are calling it today can be anything Microsoft says it is. If Microsoft defines VFP8 as part of .NET then it just is . . . and legal issues evaporate (even if it does not share the CLR).
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>The product has been remarketed a number of times. It's been FoxBASE and FoxPro and VFPX.
>It's worked on multiple OS, then only on one. It's been part of Visual Studio and then not. VFP7 was part of the .NET concept in the early days of .NET and then not. And so it goes ...
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>MS is spending and will continue to spend huge amounts of advertising dollars on the .net "strategy".
>If VFP8 is part of it then the VFP community gets the advertising benefits.
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>For what its worth (doubting MS will do this anyway) I would vote "Yes".