>Reading responses to Mr.Johnson's question I have a sense of us giving some pressure on him asking "where did you hear that", "provide us a name", "point to a document". We are not a besieged fortress after all.
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>Probably a recent information from Ken Levy would be a sufficient proof: version 8 will be supported until 2010, the next VFP version is being developed. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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>Visual FoxPro Home Page
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/>
>Visual FoxPro FAQ
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/productinfo/faq/default.aspWhy don't we look at the obvious reasons why VFP is not as "thriving" as it should be:
VB user-base is huge compared to VFP (is VFP user-base growing? I don't think so)
MS are pumping a huge amount of money into .Net (doesn't include VFP)
VFP is effectively competition to .Net, they may be making money out of VFP, but that's nothing compared to using .Net with SQL Server etc.etc with all those lovely licensing costs
MS isn't marketing VFP very well (if at all)
MS has already stated that they are only looking to keep current user-base interested in VFP, not attract non-VFPers
I'm not implying VFP is dead or dying, it's far from it, and if it ever was to die, it won't be pushed, however, it is becoming less and less important to MS as they continue to push .Net.
Kev
