>No I dont and here's why.
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>Steve compares the health of the fox market to that of the Comdex market. Comdex exploded after the bubble did. FoxPro and has been in a steady decline. Starting with the FoxPro 3.0 launch until the current conference. A more fair comparison would be to conferences like TechEd. I dont think that TechEd has has as precipitous decline as Comdex has.
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>I guess if Comdex #'s INCREASE this year from last year and fox's #'s DECLINE we will finally see the end of FoxPro or will there be some justification for this. Or using the same correlation if Comdex goes under can we see the same for fox ?
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>Basically anything that Steve doesn't agree with is a myth so I take what he says with a grain of salt. Just like you are free to do here with what I am saying.
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>It's time for people to wake up and smell the coffee. The health of FoxPro is condition critical. How many people here are finding difficulties getting work in Visual FoxPro. I have heard rumors of some fox MVP types having trouble getting work.
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>I know I am opening up a can of worms that has been opened before. I stand by my analysis that VFP is on a steady decline and that developers should begin looking for greener pastures.

But see, Rod, that's the real problem. Not only has it been opened before, but it's been opened on a regular basis over and over again. I'd feel a lot more uncomfortable about VFP if I hadn't been hearing the same doom and gloom semi-anually for so many years now.

You may be right, and I don't think it's any great leap of deductive reasoning to say that many of us are learning .Net and maybe a few other things.

But, is VFP dead? I'm almost certain we'll be having this discussion again a few years down the road. I suppose one might argue that eventually, you may be proved right, but for how many years can one say the same thing, and still be considered a prophet even if it eventually comes true?

Alan

>Waiting for the hail storm,
>Rodman