Actually, you are incorrect. It had ZERO to do with VFP 9 and 100% to do with the DevEssentials Conference in Kansas City last weekend where we had two speakers and where we handed out our press release.

Admittedly the site currently doesn't have a ton of new content YET, however I believe you will find some interesting links. The site is meant to be a portal for people who are looking to use .NET with VFP or have a VFP backround and need help learning .NET. It is not meant to "kill" Fox in any way, but is instead meant to be a portal for people who need to bridge the VFP / .NET gap and shorten their learning curve.

The developers at EPS speak a lot of conferences and are constantly getting questions about learning .NET. We decided to create a portal to help these developers and also, admittedly, to get some consulting work if anyone would like advice from people "who have been there".

When I said "I expected some flames" it is because I've seen numerous people flamed here if they even "admit" to using .NET for anything. :)

I hope this clears up questions people have about our the site and our intentions. My purpose really was not to "rain to the VFP 9 Beta" as I've been accused.


>Mark, fwiw I also agree with you and the others. The timing of this post was straight from the guerilla marketer’s handbook. The post was timed to coincide with a heightened interest in VFP due to the VFP9 beta - plain and simple - even though the product offering is not even ready. This was a pure marketing ploy and, imo, I think it backfired and now we are seeing the spin control.
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>On top of which Ellen knew this because in her post to Jay Johengen, Message #911098, she even admits that she "expected some flames...". Well why would you expect to be flamed if not because they knew this was a controversial announcement at a questionable time for a product that doesn’t even exist??
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>This has nothing to do with VFP vs .Net at all, which is what the guerilla marketing angle would like the reader to believe. Instead it's designed to create a huge thread discussing this vaporware while at a time of heightened attendance in a VFP forum. It's pure biznez.
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>Anyone who claims to not understand the controversy is either pretending, in denial, or thick.
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>To the proponents on the other side of this issue: please do not pretend this is VFP vs .Net issue. It isnt.
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>>In addition, see my reply to Rod...
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>>Re: New VFPConversion Site! - Press Release Thread #910940 Message #911351
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>>I already explained myself in the original reply to Ellen. A lot of people have put in hours of work on the version, including beta sites and most of all the VFP Team. To do this type of "guerilla" advertising the first week of the public beta is nothing more than an attempt to cut the legs out from under this version before it gets off the ground.
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>>Let's say you have a tool called Visual Kevin and run a support forum like the UT to support this product. You and many of your deveolper customers are working hard on the next version and release a public beta. The next week, I come into your forum and post something like this to try to get developers to move away from your product because I think .Not is THE wave of the future.
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>>I am still a believer in using the best tool for the job, and have used .Net for a small project, but it is NOT the cat's meow just because MS says it is. Nor is VFP just because we are so passionate about our craft and this product.
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