Hi Rob, I just wanted to jump in here and say that I agree with your posts. We are in a similar boat. VFP will easily carry us for several years to come without any issues. During this time one can easily survey the landscape and I dont see MS dropping VFP anytime soon - not if they keep bringing out these new versions :)

VFP does everything we need it to do and then some. All round its a great product and has enabled us to develop over 20 different shrink wrap apps plus several websites over the years!


>Hi Fred,
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>I have heard conflicting reports on this, and feel some of these (or similar) solutions still need time to mature. Since Linux is cranking up efforts to make a desktop presence I expect the tools/ide's will improve in functionality and ease of use over the next couple of years. This is why I just plan to hang with the fox until the future is clearer. We have already started investigating Linux for servers, and dabbled with OpenOffice. We are finishing up our upgrade to XP Pro on the desktop, still using MS Office XP, so we are good to go for 3-5 years; but it is unlikely that we will be looking to MS on our next upgrade cycle, which may mean moving to another programming platform. The main point is MS seem to think that I bought a couple of copies of VFP or MSDN and they are not making money, this is not true, I just bought 40 copies of XP Pro, 35 Copies of Office SB, and a win2000 NAS appliance. This is the real argument of why MS should keep VFP alive!
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>Bob
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