Thanks, Will (and all the others that have commented)

I believe FOX will be around a lot longer that the naysayers think.

But, one word I've reminded my self to never use is the word 'NEVER' <s>

.NET has big bucks behind it so I believe it will be relatively successful down the long, long road.

The only thing that is going to kill the FOX is MS maintaining the lock on Operating Systems and preventing FOX from running on future systems.....AIN'T GOING TO HAPPEN.

Another possibility is, FOX developers believing all the CRAP about the FOX is dieing and jumping ship because they're afraid to go down on it.

I also believe MS's days being king of the hill are numbered. The open source movement continues to gain more momentum every day. They probably wouldn't take my advice, but I suggest they concentrate on keeping their existing users and developers happy if the want us to continue to use their products.


>Dale,
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>Great post and I couldn't agree with you more!
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>FoxPro has infiltrated businesses from the family shop in the middle of nowhere to the largest companies and institutions in NYC. The United States military has a large investment in mission-critical VFP applications for managing troop movement and protecting our country. In 2004 FoxPro will be 20 YEARS OLD! The reason for all of this is simple... all businesses depend on data and there is no single software development tool as versatile for working with data than VFP.
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>.NET will NEVER have this kind of success and extensive penetration into businesses during my career as a software developer as VFP.
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>Rock on Fox!
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>>Terry,
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>>I agree with just about everything you've said in this thread.
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>>There are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands small to medium sized businesses out there that want custom solutions to their business problems.
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>>The ones I've come into contact with over the last 20+ years want a solution. They might want references or samples of what I've done, but rarely do I get asked "what language do you use?"
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>>I have more than enough work to keep me busy for years, using the FOX. If I wanted more projects, I would have no trouble finding them. And, I wouldn't even continue a discussion with a potential prospect that was unwilling to commit to a minimum $2000.00 get started payment.
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>>All these naysayers are looking in the wrong places if they think VFP is dieing.
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>>I've studied .NET. I have MSDN Universal and installed VB and C#. I bought Kevin's book (.NET for Visual FoxPro Developers). I read CODE magazine, etc. I've done my duty.....I've given .NET a look and compared it to VFP.
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>>In it's present form, .NET does NOT impress me. I will continue to play with it, BUT my "bread and butter" is VFP and that's where I'm planning on staying for the forseeable future.
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>>If I'm still around 10 years from now, I expect to still be reading about how the FOX is dieing.
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>>Have a good one!