The way I look at it, if VFP 8.0 were the last VFP (and it is not) I could use it to make a lot of money for another 10 years easily.
But if I had a JOB right now programming in VFP and my daddy didn't own the company and I thought I might need another JOB next year I'd be spending a LOT of time learning .NET.
While there will be no shortage of business problems that can be solved with Fox in the near future, there is currently and will continue to be a shortage of JOBS for VFP developers.
>FWIW, things are pretty much the same here. I'm only using .NET for its superior web app creation capability, and maybe web services.
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>>I'm not "jumping ship". I couldn't make a living with .NET right now - not even sure I'd want to - and have no reason to leave Fox. I bill 1500 hours a year and no one has ever told me what tool to use to solve their problems. I'm a consultant. I'm not out looking for a programmer job.
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