John,

Don't you think that many of the arguments possed here miss the point?

I've seen it mentioned that some folk view Whil's VFP departure as an opportunity. I view this as a similar situation to a company I used to work for. They were getting involved in the paging industry in '98. When cell phones were taking off. The last I heard, they bought some companies in 2000-1 or so. When it was obvious the paging industry was shrinking. The owner justified his business decision by stating that because everyone was leaving the paging industry, he will have very little competition.

Of course, he not only has very little competition, he has very little customers too.

PF
>What is also interesting is that Steve never challenged Whil on the whole VFP/Linux issue - or the Linux issue itself. This cannot be said of .NET - where Steve not only slammed the technology, but slammed the people. And yet now, after Whil has made this decision, Steve not only slammed Whil, he slammed him hard. For Steve to say that poor sales are due to the website and not general market conditions is absurd and completely misses the point.
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