>>so at one time they were an indicator? It is always an indicator. Sounds like you are 'context dropping' here. Interesting admission on your part though. Along with the 'VFP market is shrinking' admission. Of course then we can get into the 'the whole IT market is shrinking' stuff. and is the VFP market shrinking at the same rate as the rest of the IT market...LOL.
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>You are the one that brought them into the conversation as an indicator. Not me. I am just refuting your implied claim that they are an indicator of VFP8 sales.

>>I wonder what has been done to improve Stonefield, Web Connection, and Voodoo in the last two years? Or are the principles of these companies allowing their actions to speak louder then their words ever could? Are the principles spending part of their time serving a different market? I think they are.
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>Stonefield -- work moved to developing a VFP Query/Report tool because of demand.
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>Web Connect and VooDoo -- I would suspect .Net
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>>With IT spending down relative to the dot com bubble years and MS's refusal to market VFP outside the Foxpro community I conclude that VFP 8 is not selling as well as VFP 5 and 6. It provides a simple and direct explanation for the other events I've discuss previously in this thread.
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>MS never marketed FP or VFP outside the community for any version, so how is that relevent to your conclusions about VFP8 versus 5 or 6?


Based upon Whil Hentzens's comments :

"I can look up your name and tell you what purchases you've made, how many times you've been to our website, if you've written to me about FoxTalk in 1999, what conferences you've been to, if you were an officer in a user group in 1994, or if you wrote for the third issue of the Cobb Fox User Journal. It's far from perfect, but it's a bigger, more complete repository of data than anyone else has. And as a result, I have hard numbers about the decline of the Fox market since the late 90s. "

I'd say sales of VFP 8 are lower than VFP 5 and 6.

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