>I've seen this many times while on consulting gigs with some largish companies where a small team was using VFP. These small teams were usually fighting political issues with the IT department over use of VFP.

Indeed, but this isn't a new phenomenon. I fought it with Foxpro 1.x/2.0 for DOS. <g> (Seriously! I didn't get management off my back about using FP until they realized that two FP developers were outperforming an office of 20 C/C++ coders down the hall.)

It's tougher today, and quite a bit more common. But it's certainly nothing new.

Dan