Monday, December 05, 2005
FoxPro not an endangered species...
... at least, according to Mary Jo Foley. In a column posted last week on Redmondmag.com, Mary Jo says that we haven't seen the last of VFP.
"Here's why I believe FoxPro is going to matter for more than just the next few years: There are still hundreds of thousands of FoxPro users, by Microsoft's own estimates. They don't sound like they're planning on going anywhere any time soon. Many of these folks are happy that Microsoft never attempted to .Net-ify FoxPro, and think FoxPro is better for the decision.Despite what Mary Jo Foley says, I stand by my statements last summer (here, here, and here) that Sedna will be the last VFP update.
Microsoft is certainly not going to pull the rug out from under these folks (the way it did with the Visual Basic 6.0 diehards—but that's for another column). That's mainly because the Microsoft dev team has figured out it has a lot to gain from FoxPro."
// posted by Craig Berntson @ 9:15:00 AM 
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