>>The company would have had a major rewrite of their programs completed by 1999,
>>in VFP. With the doubtful future of VFP, I had to change my strategy.
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>What doubtful future? They've been saying "doubtful future" about VFP since MS bought it (remember, they were going to use it to improve Access), and we've gotten three major releases since them (OO, COM, ADoc), with the next version on its way.

At the time they bought it, it was aimed against Borland and dBase IV. Just count the functions which were added or aliased to achieve dB IV compatibility.