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VFP Definitely alive until 2010?
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00942119
Message ID:
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If Fox always comes out on the short end of an arguement why is it that you are a Fox developer?

Lets say you bring a $500,000 .Net price tag and I bring a $50,000 VFP. I suppose you could counter anything but you may have a pretty weak case.

BTW what does you guarantee cover?



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>Why do you assume the 2010 support date is the only information he is bringing to the meeting?
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>If you are looking for a message from MS - that is all you have - and it is not much at that... Note the following:
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>1. MS has stated that the strategic focus is .NET.
>2. Fox is not .NET
>3. Even without #2, MS has stated that Fox is not part of the stratgic focus of MS.
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>Like it or not, I am a Fox developer. I am also a VB, .NET, SQL Serve, and Oracle Developer. I guarantee you, you could bring ANYTHING to the table - and I could counterany pro-VFP argument that would be brought to the table.
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>If I were to stay in this business, I would make a specialty in advertising services that would re-write Fox apps in .NET. Is there any serious doubt that would not be fertile ground or that it would be successful????
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>Why do you assume that there is a .Net guy lurking about it, this not in PA? Maybe there is a Linux guy lurking, maybe no one, it does not matter, it was a VFP question not a what should I use question.
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>The technology does not matter... Whether it is the windows or linux platform, whether it is .NET or Java, Fox still comes out on the short end of the argument.
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