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>Microsoft announced today that it has completed the Alpha testing of VFP.NET and will soon be accepting applications for the first phase of beta testing for the product. More details to come!!
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Wayne;

I understand that at the same meeting it was announced that the Marketing department of Microsoft has decided how to sell .NET and what it is designed to accomplish. Also, the industry had agreed upon a single Web Services Standard, based upon the Microsoft model.

Tom