Ed,

I was just trying to be facetious. Any word can have many meaning. Sometime one must look to the context in which the word is used for interpretation. The meaning of Dot Net to a marketing executive would have a broader meaning than it would to a systems analysis. From a highly technical point of view, your definition of Visual FoxPro's relation to DotNet is correct; However, I think it would be beneficial to have something on the VFP 8 box that indicate the close family relations between Visual FoxPro and Dot Net. Visual FoxPro might not be an immediate member of the DotNet family, but it certainly a close relative. A system analysis would no doubt know this, but a prospective customer might not.

>Hi Michel,
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>I though Microsoft and Dot Net were Synonymous. Isn't Visual FoxPro a microsoft product?

No, one is a subset of the other - all poodles are dogs, but not all dogs are poodles. Microsoft offers a wide array of non-dotNet products, and a number of third party vendors such as MicroFocus are offering dotNet products without being directly affiliated with MS.

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