>> The relative trends of the 2 are coincidental.
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>The point is that he was comaparing VFP conference attendance to the IT world in general. Comdex is about as general as you can get.

Riiiiight....but comparing those two makes no sense. It's like if you wake up in the morning and stub your toe and it was raining outside suddenly coming up with a statistic that says if you stub your toe its more likely to rain. The compaing should be between two software developer conferences for different languages, such as VFP and VB, in the same part of the USA. THEN you'd have a 'trend' or some statistics that show something.