>Well in light of this I have to wonder about what seemed to be the new M$ >marketing ploy for VFP regarding it's place as a developer tool being one for >handling the middle tier. Atleast that was my interpretation of some of M$ >based info presented at DevCon, was I wrong?

I don't think so. However, it is fair to say that some significant things are missing in the middle tier area - concurrency, event surfacing, etc. That's not to say that you can't do a lot with VFP. However, it also echos the need to become versed in other development tools as well<s>.