>The impression I'm getting is that conversion could be enough hassle to maybe
>side with a language that has a more predictable future.

VFP has a quite predictable future: they're working on the next version now, as far as I know. Besides, it's not as if programs will stop working if MS ever does drop support for VFP...

>Commit/Rollback is implemented with VFp is it not? How is this implemented? Is
>this purely on application level or db level?? To what extent is VFP more
>relational than fp26.

I would say that it's supported on the DB level, as far as I know: you don't have to roll your own code. VFP supports referential integrity, where FP2.6 doesn't.