>If there is no plan to have a vfpoledb provider that functions in a 64 bit environment it seems almost pointless to develop the DDEX wrapper. I would much rather see the resources expended to upgrade the data provider.

There is a huge difference in the resources needed for the latter and is not part of the plans. If you plan to have a your database run on a 64-bit server, than it will be recommended that you store your data in a 64-bit database server like SQL Server 2005. Note: VFP 9.0 will run in 32-bit mode on a 64-bit machine.