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>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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>You don't get it...
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>Better to be a VFP user and a MS customer than to be somebody elses customer. That Jos is the primary business objective. And by the way - unless you have not realized it - a signficant portion of VFP customers have actually become MSDN subscribers.
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>As for the case studies and the rest of it - look up the word placate...

pla·cate (plakat)

tr.v. pla·cat·ed, pla·cat·ing, pla·cates

[Latin plcre, plct-, to be cool.]

Placate - To continue to develop, enhance, and improve a product. To make a product better than another. To provide a tool for RAD.

Placatee - The user of said product who now out-develops users of non-placated tools.

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