Hello Tore,

I think that any way we take this we lose. If we complain with new threads confronting MS about the things they don't do with VFP it is probably going to hurt because some UT members will interpret this as "Well it looks more and more like it's time to use another tool".

If we don't talk about what's happening (or should I say what's not happening) with VFP then MS could interpret this as "Well the VFP community does'nt seem to care so let's do worst marketing than we ever did" (here again if it's ever possible to do so). I know that it's the new rule within MS to market VFP only within the community. But when a community is getting smaller and smaller eventually you don't need to improve the product.

So this is a lose-lose situation.


>Hi Stuart,
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>To give you a straight answer: Nobody knows, or those who know are not allowed to say anything. The rumour that VFP is dead has been out for the last 10-12 years, and VFP9 will be released later this year (October?). So it is definitively not dead yet.
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>And, by the way, any debate on this topic will only put more nails into the coffin!
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>>I would like to know if Fox is on its way out?
>>Hentzenwerke is no longer going to publish Fox books, Pinnacle no longer publishing FoxTalk, no more FoxPro conferences at Whilfest. Is the industry trying to tell as something?