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Why VisualFoxPro was discontinued ?

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Do you wonder the reasons VisualFoxPro had been discontinued by Microsoft ?

The fact VFP team had decided don't adhere dot net framework years ago causes this fact  ? something else ?

I'd like to make my mind about that (I know it's not a recent subject)
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I believe VFP has inner strengths that will make it survive like a phenix, despite of Microsoft intensions and plans.

 It's a matter o justice, in a way someone will promove that in a manner that could surprise  everyone of us.

Thank you for so deep and clever analisys of the fact.
I believe that FoxPro will remain.

There are compilers out there that compile Fox to .Net but not all the command yet.

I hope Google will continue to build on it. Google's beta software is more stable than the final versions of its competitors. :-)

Another thing. You can build apps with FoxPro faster and it executes faster than almost all of the other languages. I am talking small to medium size databases.
VFP has been discontinued for the same exact reason Windows XP has been discontinued for that Vista and Windows 7 crap :-)
As you can see, good, solid and stable software is not as profitable to Microsoft as buggy crap nicely packed in some shiny UI
I totally agree. Windows XP SP3 is the best Microsoft OS so far.

3 days ago I told a sales manager at Microsoft that I use Linux for stability. He did not argue with me or try to convince me otherwise :-).
Do you develop for Linux? Sadly, i don't :-(
Personally i love Linux and use it as server for all my customers with VFP apps. Extremely satisfied throughout the years with ClarkConnect ( now ClearFoundation ), a distro with which even the complete Linux noob i am figured as a hero with my customers - it installed in a snap a great gateway, mail server, file server, even Outlook connector...
At home i just installed Elastix, which is basically CentOS with the Asterisk PBX included and the Webmin manager.
For me, in a perfect word, i would compile my VFP apps to Linux :-)
I develop using only VFP.

My team uses .Net and php.

My client wanted .Net and now he is asking to switch to php/Linux for stability :-)