>>>Microsoft is and does support us. Look at DevCon...
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>Is this debate still going on? I must admit that I haven't kept up with foxpro since moving on to Oracle a year and a half ago. But this debate had raged ever since MSFT bought foxpro. MSFT will do no more for foxpro than it already has. That is, continue to make a fine product, and continue to merely market it to the faithful. And it will continue to move FP's technology to it's other products (and vice versa).
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Lee, I'm still successfully writing a product that you helped initiate. I've expanded it from a single table lookup system with a limit of 255 fields to a multiple table system that currently handles more than 1000 fields per record, with an even faster, more integrated search engine. And thanks to the object-oriented capabilities and private datasessions of VFP 5, I've moved the product from a single record display system to a program that can display as many "notebooks" of information as the user's memory can hold file handles.
In short, the product in question has grown by leaps and bounds because of the evolution of Visual FoxPro, and while I am interested in exploring other technologies (just because of native curiosity), and while I am certain that Oracle has its strengths, I am sold on the strength of Visual FoxPro, both as a programmer and in the market.
David M. Stowell
Programmer of Stock Investor
American Association of Individual Investors
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