On Feb 28, 2004, at 6:02 AM, Michael J. Babcock wrote:
> Ok, so don't go against Visual Studio directly, but at the very least,
> why not offer some sort of marketing for new VFP development work?
> You make it sound as though to push VFP would be bad on its own words
> against Visual Studio.
You don't follow the thought pattern of Microsoft. First, there are
Microsoft developers and non-Microsoft developers. They want all of the
non-MS people to switch to MS, of course, and the only dev tool they
want them to use is Visual Studio, since that locks them into the much
more expensive licensing scenarios for the products they develop. You
see, Visual Studio is a very inexpensive tool that tends to make very
expensive applications. VFP is a very inexpensive tool that tends to
make very inexpensive applications.
I'm sure that Microsoft couldn't care less if someone used VS instead
of VFP, if they ended up with the same licensing revenue. But that's
simply not the case, and as long as it is, they do not want *any*
developers choosing VFP over VS. If they market VFP so that people
outside of our community have actually heard of it, a good part of them
might investigate it and decide to use that to develop their apps,
resulting in a loss of revenue for Microsoft.
Follow the money.
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