Dave:

I do not agree with your conclusions, and the validity of the methods used for your statistical sampling have been already discussed.

I want to comment a little, if I may, on your mention of Rick Strahl.
You may have noticed, or not if you can't find the issue in Toronto {g}, that the current FoxPro Advisor (November 2003), besides a cover page article on a comparison between the OOP models in VFP and .Net (Markus Egger and Claudio Lassala), also brings an article on VFP by Rick Strahl on using and controlling IE from VFP (yes, it does require some knowledge of HTML I'm afraid). {g}

Alex


>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"