John,

>I am not saying that...rather, I am saying that you are placing WAY too much emphasis on the fact that MS will support Fox until 2010.

I stated a simple fact in my reply to the originator of the thread. I can't control how much emphasis you put on my postings.

>I agree - I don't see your point here.

The point is that developers continue to use tools that are no longer "supported" by the original vendor. In a lot of cases this is forced by corporate policy and/or ROI reasons that are far more important to companies, than what any particular pundant is spouting as the only tool that is acceptable for software development.

>It would be rather unwise to advise a client to adopt an unsupported tool just because it can get the job done. And, it would be unwise to advise a client to stay with what is now unsupported just because it gets the job done.

As I stated in the last post, I never recommend that anything but current releases of a developer tool be used. I am usually hesitant to recommend that production code be redeployed in a new release until SP1 ships.

>Interesting...so what you are saying is that it is OK to be unrealistic about a vendor supporting a product until 2010 - because it is not "negative".

I will admit that I am clueless as to trying to understand what you are trying to say in that sentence.

What I said before is that Microsoft has a stated support lifecycle policy for every development tool (VFP and VS.Net2003 being the two current releases). I'd direct folks to these articles: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh%3Ben-us%3Blifecycle&LN=EN-US&x=16&y=13 and http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];lifeDevTool . VFP8 has a finite support lifecycle. VS.Net2003 has a finite support lifecycle.

>You say I am guilty of spreading FUD. I say your P.C. cup runneth over...

That's your spin on a couple of simple factual statements I made in the first post, again I can't control the ways you try to spin my postings. This is the second thread where you've incorrectly accused me of making politically correct statements. I really don't have any motivation to make "politically correct" or "politically incorrect" statements. Methinks you read too much into things.