>So, will VFP folks buy any of this? Maybe. I guess I have never agreed with the strategy espoused by marketing and mgmt folks that VFP customers will flock like sheep to a new product if you simply add "VFP-like" features or language to it

I don't think the features are being added to prop the VFP market - that market is entrenched and growing. I thing adding VFP features to NET is more an attempt to prop up the NET market.

NET will never be a "player" until hard core developers move there and MS does something to assure low maintenance costs for the the other stuff it takes for a net solution. Right now the most exciting desktop work is being done with VFP and the most exciting infrastructure work belongs to java.

Net is waiting for beleivers - the VFP features are an attempt to grow some followers and to make Net easier for the current crop of system shop coders trying to sell it. VFP inside net has nothing to do with VFP - it has everything to do with growing a market so all those new OS and SQL engines under development will have a market to go to when they're done.

Lot's of people still use Office 97! Microsoft would love to change that!