Hi Andy,

>Wow, I didn't realize you did the VFP training for free these days! That's extremely generous of you and is more than a mere "gesture" to community. Well done and keep up the good work.

Nope... We're still charging people to come to our training classes. < g > If we didn't we'd have to stop offering them and I don't think the community wants that. I remember the good 'ol days when there used to be a number of training companies offering VFP training. Unfortunately that number has dwindled significantly.

While the headcounts are definately NOT what they used to be, we continue to offer VFP training because I know that there needs to be someone who offers to train the dwindling number of newbies how to develop applications in VFP. Conferences and 3-day VFP boot camps are all well and good, but there is no substitute for spending quality time (3-5 days at least) in a hands-on environment.

In the face of lower headcounts and obviously lower revenue, we continue to offer companies the opportunity to send their developers to what the VFP community has voted the Best VFP Training not once, but twice. We continue to offer introductory classes for the newbies and advanced and client/server classes for the more "seasoned" VFP developer.

It would be an easy business decision to make, deciding to abandon the VFP community and stop offering VFP training, but I won't. As long as VFP is around, I plan on teaching people who want to learn how to use it.

Jim Duffy
Microsoft MVP
INETA Speaker
TakeNote Technologies
Developer's Choice Award Winner for Best Training Company
Specializing in VB.NET, ASP.NET, VFP, and SQL Server Training and Development