>I realize that you and the the team probably put a good deal of thought into the letter and road map before posting them and I appreciate the effort. In the interests of transparency as to planning, thinking, and doing...
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>Could you please expound on the work that is being done in Sedna? I would like to know if it is a collection of .NET assemblies, a collection VFP classes, both, or something entirely different?

Craig, your enthusiasm around Sedna is great. I will start off by saying that the VFP team just started working on Sedna recently. Our budget was approved yesterday and we will kick into high gear working on Sedna starting in July (after our June events promoting VFP 9.0, etc).

We do not have the answers to these questions yet, but when we start working on details we will share them with the community so there is some involvement and disclosure of features and specifications during the implementation and test processes.

I think the best thing to do in starting to answer your questions is to ask you the same ones in return. All of the questions you are asking are ones the VFP team is asking in early Sedna design and planning mode today. We will have some more details and demos to show at DevCon June 12th in the keynote, and I will have a Channel 9 video online released with many of those demos soon after for anyone to watch and then comment on.

For what to learn now, I would say starting to get familiar with the .NET Framework over the next 2 years would be very helpful since we plan to leverage many features in the .NET Framework 2.0 in Sedna. Learning something like VB.NET, even just for scripting like coding (like one would with VBA, VBScript, JavaScript, etc.) is a good plan. I'll have more information on tips, tools, and such to help VFP developers learn about all these for those who are interested.