>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.
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>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.
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>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.


Well said, as always. I have been gainfully employed writing FoxPro software for over 10 years but for the past 5 it has been entirely maintenance of legacy systems or keeping my finger in the dike while others rewrite the app in some other language. If anyone is writing new software in VFP in the metropolitan Chicago area (population 8 million) it's news to me. I have been keeping up with all the cool new features in VFP 8 -- and they ARE cool -- but sometimes I wonder why I bother. There is no reasonable expectation of having an opportunity to use them. So I invest my learning time in .NET and SQL Server. That's not bitching, that's just saying.

Mike