I have to agree with this - we have a number of customers who have held onto NT / W2K servers only so that they can continue to run the VFP/Web Connect products we have supplied. Everything else has gone Linux. The same applies to us, ourselves: we still have Win* boxes so that we can run the stuff that matters...at least until we can rewrite it (as MS are doing nothing to help us move our products over to Linux without dropping VFP). I've even got a customer with Macintosh's who is prepared to host a Win* box to run VFP/Webconnect (there is nothing that really can compare in Linux) - MS aren't too daft, but it IS only a matter of time before something comes along and we'll jump ship completely...what I wouldn't give for Visual FoxPenguin.



>Perhaps there is a bigger picture to realize? VFP doesn't run on DR-DOS, Linux, Unix, etc.,... It only runs on Microsoft Windows 32-bit OS's. That means that all one hundred of those users have already paid into the Microsoft coffers for their OS. Furthermore it means that it's likely that all those or most of those one hundred employees will also buy MS Office Suite. So you're $500 of revenue is more realistically $40,500.00+
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>So think about that? You're VFP application that your customer couldn't not live without... simply wouldn't run if they didn't have MS Windows.
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>I believe grocery stores call this a "loss leader"...
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>There are plenty of reasons why MS should continue foster growth in the VFP product.
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>Just my thoughts...
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>-Don