LOL

Another what if...

What if all employees at MS worked all dressed the same and wear paper bags to cover their head. Give all the departments the same amount of workers. All marketing departments get the same amount of money and let them do whatever they want with it.

This could be the only fair chance for VFP to get known.

Eventually VFP would be in a pretty good position and even if some bosses got mad because of the success of VFP there would be no way to stop it because they could'nt know who'd be responsible for such a success.


>Denis and Tracy;
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>A marketing strategy and department that is focused only on holders of the last version upgrading to the latest greatest version seems odd or at least unique.
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>What would happen if there was no marketing department for VFP? Just let the MSDN subscriptions and upgrades do the “talking”. Microsoft could save money on salaries, office space, utilities, benefits and who knows what else? Sounds like a good plan to me. The money saved could be put into the .NET Marketing Initiate and perhaps Microsoft could at last “get it right”. I am sure the 25 cents saved would make all the difference in the world in the success of .NET. :)
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>Tom
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>>I don't think that Marketing is about what works and what does'nt work in a software.
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>>What I think is that a part of marketing is about letting known to others that a product exists. And that this products is backed-up by the company that makes it.
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>>Marketing should'nt be based only on an already established community.
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>>Marketing should be there to compare it to other products in the same category and show what it can do that others can't.
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>>I never had formal marketing training but what I'm saying is based on what I see regularly when other products are marketed.
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>>And I'm sure I forgot a lot of things that could be done from a marketing department.
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>>>To be honest, I hate to say anything derogatory about MSFT's VFP marketing efforts right now (give me some time), because I just started using VFP8 and I'm really happy with the product's improvements. However, I am still looking for the gui use of the new tools like cursoradapter and the xml stuff (like Delphi has) instead of only pure code examples...for instance, in Delphi you can drop this stuff on a form and gui properties pop up (or by right-clicking on it and selecting properties) to be configured.
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>>>Tracy