Steve's analysis is total crap. He compares the VFP attendance for 1 conference. If you take the attendance figures for all the major VFP conferences for the last 10 years, the attendance figures are steady and show a slight increase. The reason for the Advisor DevCon collapse is the outlandish cost as you pointed out earlier. I used to go to Advisor DevCons, but have not in the last 3 years for that primary reason. The value sucks. I have been to Essential Fox this year and am going to WhilFest in the fall. My cost for both will still be less than what it would cost me for the Advisor DevCon.

>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.
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>Waiting for the hail storm,
>Rodman