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With neither thought nor caution, Richard Hane blurted:
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> There has not been a major announcement or hint of one by fpTech
> in years. Yes I know there have been updates but not a new major
> item.  Most companies that don't show growth with new products or major
> enhauncements to exsisting ones is going to start to loose market share
> as well as customers.

In that case, they'd have been losing market share for the last 1.5
decades.  My guess would be that they have been, although I can neither
prove nor disprove that estimation.

> Where are the actions from the meeting held early this year?  There seem
> to be some real direction I saw in the minutes.  Where is the XML or a
> true Windows version or some other GUI version or a expanding of using
> the HTML built in since 4.8?  As I have offered before, the lack of noise
> from fpTech is deafening.  I hope the new year proves me wrong with these
> fears.

Have you -seen- the economy this year?  I'm not sure R&D expenditures are
necessarily a prudent move for a company that pays their employees R&D
time, when it's for a product/feature that may fly or sink.  If it's not
absolutely necessary R&D that's essential to the operation of a company,
most places have cut back on speculative R&D, from what I'm hearing.

Exceptions would be small shoppes like mine that are working on projects
that hardly anyone knows about, but which will hopefully pay off--and I
think I'm onto a good one now.  It's a service, not software to sell, in
this case.  But again, I'm basically flying solo, and I'm doing the
development in my free time when there's nothing paying that needs
addressing.  I don't get paid for that.  If Ken or Ron is working on a
feature, the company needs to pay them.

In this last year's economy, I think even I could forgive a lack of things
to announce, or a slim-to-nonexistent selection of new offerings.

Also, if what Richard said about a code freeze to stabilise the core is
accurate, fP Tech has my praise--I've only been recommending that move for
half a decade.  Good to hear that it seems to have finally been done.  :)

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