I have an '88 Red Cutlass Supreme International ... not your "father's car" (Oldsmobile) ... and the girls love it; they think it looks "beautifull" (even tho GM has killed it).

That's the way I look at VFP ... The "VFP team" seems to lack the proper direction, but I'm still tooling aroung with VFP 7.0 and making some good friends. Frankly, I think .NET is ****; it's just another piece of software and a Java ripp-off ... and most customers don't know the difference.

There are enough hooks in VFP (including the API kit) that one can keep "tooling" around for a couple of years ...

We are only limited by our imagination ... (and the "corporate" IT types are not always a factor worth worrying about).

>Interesting point. It is similar to the point I called Craig on - basically making an assertion with no factual basis to make that assertion.
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>But is it similar????
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>There is a lot of acecdotal/circumstantal evidence to allow one to draw the conclusion that the market for VFP is shrinking. Time and time again, when MS has been asked why they don't invest in Fox - the answer is that the market served by Fox is declining, has no upside, and as a result - does not warrant investment. Clearly, the focus is on the type of computing ala .NET, Longhorn, etc.
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>For a while, Ken was up here practically begging people to upgrade to the next version (7 at the time). For whatever reason - 7 upgrades fell short of expectations. There is no evidence to indicate that 8 sales made up for - and surpassed what 7 was supposed to do.
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>There is more than enough info out there - in spite of not having hard numbers - to conclude that 8 sales are poor. You can say they are good since the market continues to decline - can you???
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