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>Heck yer the one that made the comment without any real data - YOU prove it...do the survey yourself - poll 10,000 or so random I/T people - if 99% of them argree with you then I'LL concede.
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>Don't need to Victor...I don't have the emotional stake in the issue.

Not sure where that came from John - what does emotions have to do with any of this? Are you suggesting that if you're not emotionally involved with something then suddenly you're exempt from the responsibility of stating facts and you can just make up numbers like that? I don't understand what you're trying to say here.....It sounds kinda like you wanna start an argument with me about something else since you can't win this one???

>Speaking anecdoteally, do you think VFP as a % of all development tools, comprises more than 1% of the market?

Probably not. There are probably more COBOL programs running around than there are VFP ones - but that doesn't mean COBOL is newer/more advanced that VFP either.

>Fox likely does not account for anything close to 1% of MS's revenue.

Most likey also true, but I don't think it makes up 1% of their product line either.

Oh and by the way there is no such word as "anecdoteally" ... I assume you mean "anecdotally" ... it's more impressive if you spell correctly.