Rick, > YAG has been quite clear on the fact VFP will never be sold > because of the Intellectual Property > (IP) in VFP that is now in other MS products. > He also mentioned that Microsoft will look at any severe > problem in VFP discovered after VFP 9 SP2 is released and > address it on a case-by-case basis. While I cannot speak for > MS, I would think something breaking because of a future OS > release might trigger such consideration.
BTW, that's fine with me. It says that MS will be *responsible* for the product for well into the foreseeable future, regardless of product support dates. That's great for us, especially those (most of us) with investments. As far as I'm concerned, I'm not selling my customers on VFP, I'm selling software products that do things they need. The important part for us, I think, is that MS is not - nor likely to be - in a position to simply stuff VFP into a box somewhere and forget about it. Of the 3 possibilities: 1. They sell it 2. They turn it over to the public domain 3. They keep responsibility for it I don't have a problem with the 3rd. I've long accepted that MS wasn't going to promote VFP. Now that they've abandoned furthering it, I think that will open up room for competitors to get back into the fray, and we can look to them for advancements. In the meanwhile, we'll have the security of MS fixing problems - and, as importantly - not reinventing it! So we - and our investments - are in pretty good shape, I'd say. Bill > > Rick > White Light Computing, Inc. > > www.whitelightcomputing.com > www.rickschummer.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** 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.
