>But reality is reality. We're not doing anything differently than has always been done; in fact, I could make a good argument that we're far more customer-driven than we ever have been insofar as product features and responsiveness to bug reports.


I'd back you there. Seems like there is twice as much goodness added to each new version than was added to the previous version. Accellerated addition of goodness as opposed to steady addition of goodness....most of it driven by developer requests.

You guys do a great job, and I hope things stay exactly as they are. VFP is perfect for most of the for-pay work I do. It is the only piece of software I have ever owned that I never hesistate to buy the latest upgrade and put it to work immediatly.

I first started hearing about the eminent demise of the product at Devcon 97...yet so many significant improvements have come out since then I have a really hard time beleiving it's dying. So long as the user base can support a small development group (smaller is better, IMHO), I don't see any reason for MS to kill it.

If it dies, so be it. I'll probably move to Python or some other open source HLL for this kind of work. Free software is the only thing I can think of that provides the bang for the buck VFP does.

It ain't dead. It ain't even napping. I wouldn't be surprised if VFP is still around when .net has been supplanted by The Next Big Thing.