>>>>ROFLMAO. Oh yeah he can do whatever he wants. But you did'nt read the fine prints in the last lines of the contract (I heard some say those lines are written with blood). Whatever he wants .... in order to kill VFP
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>>>Hi Denis. Call me a sucker but I dont buy this at all. If you want to kill a product you dont keep bringing out new versions, SP's, enhance the website, ask for case studies, etc, etc. You stop doing those things and go into maintenance mode asap. I think KenL and the VFP team do the best possible given the various business objectives and products of MS, and recognizing that VFP is not their main stream money spinner.
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>>I agree with you but would'nt it be better for everyone with more agressive marketing?
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>I would be happy with much less: a simple letter/email from some head honcho(s) at MS to every single MS dev tools manager in the world stating that VFP is an important and useful, although not central, dev product in the MS stable of dev tools. And accordingly should be represented to customers and developers in an appropiate light as a serious small to medium size database dev tool (eg 1-1000 users) and excellent frontend tool in multi tier projects even for large scale database backends.
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>That message is a lot cheaper to deliver than conventional marketing and, if the letter is posted on the VFP site, we can all point our customers and prospects to it. Is it asking too much?

To me that would be internal marketing. You see it always relates to the marketing ;-)