Re: No VFP 10

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"Zootal" <Don't send me any freaking spam at zootal dot com remove the
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"Gene Wirchenko" <genew@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Zootal" <Don't send me any freaking spam at zootal dot com remove the
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It's a sad day for the VFP community, but is anyone surprised? Microsoft
just did not want VFP to be successful, and I don't understand why they
didn't pull the plug a long time ago.

That, I think, is an easy one. They starved VFP for so long
that people started moving away from it. Those who announced what
they were doing did some of Microsoft's work for them. They must
think that there is no longer sufficient base that a fight is likely
or that they can ignore any protest with impunity.

I wonder that they didn't reach that point a year or two ago. They could

Oh, quite possibly. If they waited to be sure, that would
account for the time of the announcement.

have easily killed it after VFP8 came out. If they had, there would be more
people using dot net today. I work with several people doing VFP9 work that

Perhaps they could have. Imagine where that impetus will go now,
almost for sure.

would be doing dot net work today if there had been no VFP9. We had some
serious technology problems with VFP8 that was resolved with VFP9, and if it
wasn't for VFP9, our product would have probably been converted to dot net
by now. We would have abandoned VFP8 and probably immediately moved to a dot
net conversion.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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