>Hi Tamor,
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>Thanks for your reply. I know it was a bitch fest in Miami. I was there. But if the panel had truly listened, they would realize that there is a lot of nervousness and fear behind the questions. We all do not want to let a good thing die. The part of the panel that could answer the questions for MicroSoft, namely Ken Levy, basically said he has no control over how MicroSoft pushes the product and that it is up to the FoxPro community to keep it alive. Basically VFP is not a revenue generator for MicroSoft. I saw what MicroSoft made last year. With some departments like MicroSoft Office, they had net profits over a billion. With others, they had a net loss of a few hundred million. Over all, in these tough times, the result of subtracting the net loss divisions from the net profit divisions was over 800 million. I find it hard to believe that MicroSoft could not come up with a couple of million a year for a marketing staff, materials, and advertising budget dedicated to VFP. I
>was very excited when Ken Levy was named director of VFP for MicroSoft. I was hoping that he would act like a lobbyist for the product. One could say that VFP is competing with other, more profitable MicroSoft tools. Coca Cola realized that offering Coke and Classic Coak that the shelves would be full of Coke, Classic Coke and Pepsi. 2 out of 3 choices on the shelf were Coke!
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>Did you know there is a Cobol.Net? Why isn't there a VFP.Net? I don't know because I can't get a straight answer out of any one from MicroSoft.
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>Love you and respect you dearly,
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Louis,

I have to disagree with, at least, part of your assesment.

I was in management for over 17 years prior to becoming a programmer. If VFP wasn't making money for MS, then VFP would no longer exist. It does exist and from what we've been told, yet another version is in the works.

When VFP doesn't make money, then it will die.