Robert,

Very good point. With Linux coming on strong, now is not a good time for Microsoft to send VFP developers shopping for new tools. I think many developers are going to see .NET as putting all their eggs in Microsoft's basket and will look to tools that allow cross platform development.

Greg

>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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>>>I do not plan on migrating anytime soon, but if I did it would probally be to Delphi/Kylix and be platform independant, possibly Java, but there IDE needs lots of work yet. I can easily hold out in VFP for several years, so I just plan to sit back and watch the other developers thrash out the early versions :)
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>>Hi Bob,
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>>I haven't kept up with it, but I do believe Kylix has kind of "withered on the vine" so to speak. I bought V3 a couple of years ago (3-4) and I notice it hasn't really been upgraded since then. And it was far from perfect, so there was certainly room for additional versions.