> > > > I am sure that other companies will fill the gap opened by MS, but still I feel sad. Not because that step will
> > > > reflect somehow on me (I'll have works to do until 2300 :o))) but because such handy tool will be thrown away.
> > >
> > > I know what you are saying but I don't really see VFP as being "thrown away".
> > >
> > > If MS said, "Right, we aren't selling any more licenses for VFP and not one more minute of time is being spent on the product. It's not going to run on Vista so bad luck." - that would be getting closer to "throwing it away".
> > >
> > > We have a mature product with a data engine that rocks and a community that can extend the product as needed for the foreseeable future.
> > >
> > > I won't be cutting up my VFP cd any time soon!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > amie
> >
> > G'day Jamie,
> > Of course, the management folk here at the Bank are running around with ideas of "the end of the world...". But that's what you get working in a large organisation ;)
> >
> > Like you, I won't be cutting up my VFP CD. It's still a relevant product in this web crazed world. For small to medium companies, its a cheap and easy product to use.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nick
>
> Don't tell me that Goran told them already :)
>
> And I can't believe that they are worried - this is the organisation that had a big bunch of VB3 developers working on Windows For WorkGroups in 2002!
>
> Cheers,
> Jamie

Jamie,

> Don't tell me that Goran told them already :)
No, someone else did that. A new guy in the team sent an email saying "Look, its the last version..."
The last thing you do with a herd of animals is to startle them ;)

VB3 is still the being used in another part of the bank (on this floor). I bet they had to use a crow bar to get them off DOS...

Cheers,
Nick