>>>Yeah, that seemed to be the next natural question and I thought of asking him that. But Ken has been hammered so much lately I layed off. I probably wouldn't have understood the technical reason behind it anyways. :)
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>>Dean,
>>When anyone rolls out a bunch of "technical" reasons why something cannot be done it is virtually always FUD designed to put the receiver "in his place".
>>The truth of the matter is that anything can be done - it's a simple matter of programming. Trouble is, one has to WANT to DO it.
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>>Seems it's easier to tell customers that their wants are mis-informed and technically not feasible than to just go ahead and deliver what the customer wants!
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>Hi Jim.
>You may be right... in a very cynical way .... ;)
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>That's what I tell my clients if I don't want to do what they want. Or I tell them that they wouldn't be able to afford it. ~s
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>No seriously. It seems odd that MS would bring VFP this far to just drop it. They must have some kind of long range plans for VFP. I don't believe VFP is going away anytime soon. The VFP jobs may go away, but not VFP.
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The VFP jobs may go away but not VFP? Can you run that by us again in slo-mo? I'm not being a smarta*s, I truly don't understand that statement.

In any case, ANY product from ANY company can be dropped. It happens all the time. (Did you hear Toys R Us is considering getting out of the toys business?) Times change, customer needs change, strategies change.

I don't know about you but I don't think the announcement in May about the future direction of VFP is going to warm our hearts. This has been completely different from what we have gone through in the past, with the developer community being assured even before the upcoming version ships that work is underway on the version after that. Heard any of that surrounding the release of VFP 9.0? I haven't. Maybe they're waiting to see how 9.0 sales are but this feels like nothing more than a stay of execution.

Mike