Bingo. When your truck has 250,000 miles on it you consider getting a replacement and enjoying the new features instead of yanking the engine and rebuilding it before it has an internal problem.
VFP did it's thing and it was a purchased entity not grown in house by M$. This is business not family. Having developers expand their capabilities and leverage the web in the 2000s was the desire. .NET was the vehicle by m$ vs java and php. Today it is all javascript, html5 and uber cool frameworks to get it done today. On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I think the death of VFP was not just a normal product > > cycle but a political if not military tool for affect other countries. > > Micro$oft and US Government clearly knew the consequences. :) > > I really think that's tinfoil hat territory. It didn't fit in with the > .NET world and SQL Server and the general Microsoft roadmap at the time, > so it got canned. No need to overthink it. > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajidmyleaha78ejyqtj3qox3md9n+guwswwosjys4zgh88y...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
