Hi Ken,

As a loyal Microsoft customer I really appreciate your goal of bringing transparency to Microsoft's long term plans for VFP.

1. After reading both your newsletter and roadmap I am confused as to whether or not there will be a new version of VFP? By new version of VFP I mean, a future version of VFP sold as a standalone commercial product, with its own product SKU, encompassing what you describe as "enhancing functionality for Visual FoxPro reports, productivity, and other areas that have nothing to do with .NET (VFP stand-alone)."

2. I am a big confused by your announcement of the Sedna project. Is Sedna a commercial product (available for purchase) or a VFP 9 component similar to VFPCOM?

3. Can you share any personal comments on the choice of Sedna as a project name? I googled Sedna and came up with

The coldest, most distant place known in the solar system; possibly the first object in the long-hypothesized Oort cloud.

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/

IMO, that sounds more like a name I would give a project designed to punish whoever got assigned to it vs. a project name designed to inspire. :)

If the analogy is based on planet numbering with VFP 9 being the last planet (full product version), and Sedna being something big, but less than a planet (full product) then I think the analogy fails because in terms of "greatness", VFP 9 is the Jupiter (not Pluto) of VFP releases. That means I would expect at least at least 3 more releases (Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto) to follow :)

In closing, congrats to you and your team for producing what I feel is still Microsoft's best product in the Microsoft portfolio of products.

Regards,
Malcolm