Craig,
>It is for the feeling that we are becoming self prophesying. If we keep complaining about things that VFP doesn't have, then new VFP users that find their way here will read the messages and move to another product. I for one am very tired of hearing the doom and gloom stuff. As I've said before, let's quit complaining about what VFP doesn't have and get to work using what it does have.

Hear, hear, my friend. There's a lot I wish that VFP had. But, IMHO, what it does have beats anything else available.