Dave;

Enjoyed your observations! Perhaps they are true. I just think of "Old Blue Eyes"! As I recall, he retired three times. Like Mr. S, there may still be life in VFP, but it does not seem to have as much "spark" as when it was younger! :)

Tom


>Prominently displayed at the "World's Biggest Bookstore" in downtown Toronto three week's ago is "what's new in Visual Foxpro 8.0". The World's Biggest bookstore is in the heart of downtown toronto with a computer book section of some 5000 square feet. The place is open more than twelve hours a day.
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>I returned recently and asked the manager of the computer book section how many copies have been sold. Thus far, one copy.
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>Rick Strahl is no longer a VFP MVP...he is spending time on C#...
>the price of his VFP web store fell thirty three percent....
>Kevin Macneish is waving the white flag on his VFP framework...
>Whil Hentzen is publishing Linux books...
>Many high profile VFP developers are leaving...
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>At a prominent developers conference Ken Levy played "the best is yet to come" by Frank Sinatra...
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>Well folks it looks like VFP is as dead as 'ole' blue eyes....
>p.s. the 'ole' is not an acronym for "object linking and embedding"