Same here. Even if VFP should be dropped by Micrsoft, it does not mean that it will stop to work. Even if VFP8 should be the last version, it has enough features to fill my need for at least the nect 10-15 years. So I will have pleanty of time to let the market decide what will be the best alternative, and learn that gradually.


>Anyways whatever we say we don't control what's going to happen. So I'm enjoying my development tool as long as I can and as long as it proves to be best at what I have to do.
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>>Hi Denis,
>>
>>My experience has always been that nothing good comes out a discussion where the topic itself is negative. The big problem is that a negative attitude is like a virus, it spreads, and it spreads fast. Luckily a positive attitude also spreads fast, if it is supported. I will go for the latter.
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>>>Hello Tore,
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>>>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,
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>And, by the way, any debate on this topic will only put more nails into the coffin!
>>>>
>>>>>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?