Hi Fernando,

My personal take on this, when I read it, was....

Surely I should be sure to watch and see how things progress on that front every bit as much as I should the .NET movement.
It was the source of the 'article' that prompted that reaction on my part. Whil obviously has a "good ear" for what's really going on and I take his counsel very seriously.
I also observe that there has been virtually no contradiction of the position nor claims that 'other factors' (read what you may into that < s >) might have contributed to the position.

My preference remains the "smaller shop" and I believe that such shops have cost issues that make them more likely candidates for a Linux-type environment than the larger enterprises, which is also what I read Whil as saying.
And who can say, but if VFP can fly on Linux then maybe the .DBF format can be improved without compromise to VFP itself.

All in all I think it is a positive development. Whil has obviously paid a price but it seems that he is continuing regardless.

cheers


>"I've been building custom software apps on Microsoft platforms since the mid-80's. I was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from the mid 90's until last year, a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) during the late 90's, and received the first Microsoft Visual FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award in October of 2002. So why am I moving to Linux?
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>Whil Hentzen
>January, 2004
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>http://www.hentzenwerke.com/indexwhymoving.html
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>I wondered: What does that means to all of us VFP developers, coming from such a proeminent person like Whil?
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>Fernando