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>Is that the right thing to do? I'm not sure. Put yourself in MS's shoes. Would you really want to push a technology that's distracting from your strategic platform? Where's the value in that...

Don't you think that there could be different technologies for different needs?

It's not a matter of pushing a technology over another one. It's about pushing the right technology to the right crowd.

I know that it would be crazy to think that VFP could get the same level of marketing as .Net but there is a huge difference between the level of marketing for .Net and the level for VFP. Could we agree on practically none for VFP.

So it's not a matter of trying to convert .Net users to VFP but just mentioning in what cases VFP could be a worthwhile tool to use.

What are the two objectives of all businesses. first one is to make money. When that one is accomplished the second objective is to make more money.

If .Net is that good why is there no publicity for VFP? Would'nt that be the best way to shut those big mouths VFP enthousiasts than to do proper marketing about it? If by doing so nothing changed than MS would be able to say "You see we really tried this time but it did'nt change a thing"


>>>Heck, you love VFP so much yet you've publicly stated that you probably won't upgrade to 9.0 because it doesn't offer anything you need. So where are your loyalties really?
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>>Come on Rick you're a very bright guy don't make comments like that. Would you buy the newest version of anything if according to you the most important innovation on that new version was the new color used for the shipping box?
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>Interesting. I'd call that downright ignorant. VFP 9 is full of many major enhancements that fix and update existing functionality. True they're not the 'Oh my god I gotta have it now' type of functionality, but it's very important stuff. The SQL enhancements alone are major improvements. The new Unicode features at least make VFP sort of play in the Unicode field now where it was nearly impossible before. There have been tons of major fixes to the way COM objects work in VFP. The new binary type support is major too that makes it so much easier to work with Binary data whether it comes out of SQL Server, or whether you're passing binary data to a COM object or API call... The report writer - Ok, not much use to me but a lot of people have asked for this and it's a pretty cool and extensible way you can extend the Report writer now.

You did'nt answer the original question. I never mentioned VFP9. I thought that I'd get a simple yes or no. I agree with you about VFP9. It's a terrific product. But still an answer that does'nt fit with the question <g>

Perhaps you prefer that I answer it for you?

No. Nobody in his right mind will buy the new version of an application that has no significant added value.