Bill Arnold wrote: > Ricardo, > > > > Bill, I need some advice for a friend of mine. > Her husband used to abuse her verbally, she stayed in the hope he'd > change. He then started slapping her, but when I told her to leave him > she said he'd had a lot of stress at work and that as soon as that was > over he'd change. She's now been hospitalized a couple of times, yet she > tells me that now that her husband's boss has resigned he'll be less > stressed and "perhaps without so much stress, better judgement will > pervail". > Do you think I should back her decision and wish her luck? > > ------------------------------------- > > > I think that I'm a tad more optimistic then you :) >
So is my friend ;c) > What happens with VFP after MS ends official support in 2014 is a big topic > that will develop over time. > I don't think I'll care by then. > At the least, I think it's in MS's interests not to do anything that breaks > VFP and to fix problems discovered, for the life of Windows. At the most, MS > would (should!) do something creative with VFP that alleviates all concerns > about it's future. > And why on earth would you think that? What's in there of M$? Not breaking VFP, I mean. Look at it this way. If they don't break it, you keep developing VFP applications and they get 0$. If they break it a good percentage of actual VFPers will go to '.net' and port their applications there, furthermore, some of your customers will use MS SQL Server as a back end, that's more than a few dollars. Hummmm.... tough decision. > Didn't MS say a while ago, before VFP9, that there were 100,000 VFP > developers? Even if the number is smaller, some developers create multiple > apps, and who knows how many machines these apps are running on. Add it all > up and this is a big deal and MS needs to resolve it wisely. > Yes, that's about a million people (considering customers) not paying for '.net' and/or MS SQL Server. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ 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 Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** 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.
