Craig Bailey on Microsoft

Here's some interesting stats from the OzFox networking session.

At the networking session there were 40 or so attendees (plus the speakers). I have not included the speakers in the results below.

I asked the following questions about VFP developer 'behaviour':

How many people attend User Groups (VFP or other): 21 (ie ~50%)
How many read blogs (VFP or other): 23 (ie >50%)
How many write blogs: 10 (ie 25%)

How many are using the following versions of FoxPro:
VFP9: most people (approx 35)
VFP8: 4
VFP7: 3
VFP6: 7
VFP5: 3
FPW: 5
FPD: 1

How many have products or projects that use SQL Server as the backend: 10

How many people had NOT heard of VFPx prior to today: 5
How many people had downloaded something from VFPx: 3

How many people had tried any of the Sedna CTPs: 2
How many people had tried the VFP9 SP2 CTPs: 2

This Wed we have an interesting meeting.

First up we will be discussing the recent announcement regarding VFP.

Next, Doug Bower will be repeating his excellent session from last year covering connecting to MYOB via VFP.

Then, as usual we will finish with our Q+A session.

Details on the UG site - http://www.svfpug.com.au/

See you there at 6:30pm for free pizza and drink.

Newcomers welcome!

Much to be said about this in the coming weeks, but for now I think he has given us a good summary and clear direction.

http://blogs.msdn.com/yag/archive/2007/03/13/message-to-the-vfp-community.aspx

Plenty to discuss - I'll be posting about this in a week or so once I have collected all my thoughts...

btw YAG, thank you for all the hard work you and the team have done lately. I have such high respect for you. I wouldn't like to be in your shoes at the moment :-)

I'm way behind on my post conference posts, but here's a few photos in the interim:

http://picasaweb.google.com/craigjamesbailey/OzFox2007

After a very comfortable and hassle free flight I've made it to my hotel in Seattle (I'm here for the MVP Summit starting on Monday).

I spent a few hours wandering around downtown: checking out the Pike Place Markets (as you do) and then trying in vain to find a coffee place {g}. After searching high and low for a Starbucks I was only able to find 37 of them within an hour!

Some photos (and video of the famous Pike Place Fish Market) are here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/craigjamesbailey/SeattleMarch2007