My point is that millions of decisionmakers out there are keen to save $. They don't want to upgrade OS or hardware if there is an alternative. Millions of these people are NOT storing their accounting, payrol etc in C/S databases. They use local files.
IMHO this is a tremendous business opportunity for VFP just as it is now- no CLR, no Sedna.
That's it. Picking apart the examples is a red herring. You may be serving a different customer base, but IMHO the traditional corporate markets are a shrinking opportunity whereas the small business market is a vast opportunity.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
