I just finished re-enrolling in the MS Partner program. I noticed that in the list of checkoffs for database expertise that the first listed was Access and several versions of SQL Server were present as well as Oracle and others. VFP was conspicuously absent from the list.

This is annoying. I have just spent several months on an Access project for a client who has a major application in need of major upgrades and time constraints didn't allow a rewrite. I did some moderate work in Access several years ago, but hadn't seen the "new improved" versions since 97. Despite a few nice features I still hate Access and VBA. It is clunky, inconsistent, poorly documented, half fast and only very minimally object oriented. I don't consider it a development system for serious large applications. It should have stayed an end-user product.

So why isn't VFP on the list of database expertise areas for the MS Partner program? I love VFP, but have been learning .Net because I believe the handwriting is on the wall: MS marketing is hoping VFP will go away quietly (and soon) if they ignore it.

...Jim