On Apr 11, 2007, at 8:23 AM, Kevin Cully wrote:
> Here's another article from over at TechWorld. It looks like a
> rehashing/reduction of the ComputerWorld article. I don't care
> much for
> the title "Microsoft sentences FoxPro to death"
> http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?
> newsID=8485&pagtype=all
Remember when we all jumped over the author of one of the first
articles on this for saying that VFP itself was going to be open
sourced, not just Sedna? Well, read this quote in the techworld
article from Jay Roxe, Microsoft’s group product manager for Visual
Studio:
"For Microsoft to continue to evolve the FoxPro base, we would need
to look at creating a 64-bit development environment, and that would
involve an almost complete rewrite of the core product," Roxe said.
"As far as forming a partnership with a third party is concerned,
we’ve heard from a number of large FoxPro customers that this would
make it impossible for them to continue to use FoxPro since it would
no longer be from an approved vendor. We felt that putting the
environment into open source on CodePlex [Microsoft’s open-source
site], which balances the needs of both the community and the large
customers, was the best path forward."
When I read that, it sure sounds to me like they are "putting the
environment into open source", and this is coming direct from a
Microsoft manager, not some clueless author.
-- Ed Leafe
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