>"MS's subliminal marketing against VFP" - you can't be serious!
Have you red the table of contents on the uT mag or seen the banners on the "home" page. VFP gives the project an option of a SQL or an xBase database. Reduce the visibility of that option - sell more SQL!
Unless - of course - you really believe that the well being of humainity (and our jobs), and not profits, is what motivates Microsft! Praise be the force is with you - Hal Aluuuyah!
Maybe my problem is I have not yet been baptised by shrimp cocktail sauce in the jubilee buffet atrium of a Redmond convention center!
Imagination is more important than knowledge