>... business pressures change, and the possibility remains that the small/medium business market will be found to be a fruitful one by MS. Maybe for more revenue or maybe just to stave off competition. In which case things can change.

We all know that the new MS offer just does not fit the needs of small/business market. That has been said thousands of times. MS just want us to learn their new incarnation of C. Come on. Is that's a joke? Explore the joy of a C-based syntax to develop business applications that will still heavily rely on a runtime and will be platform-dependant.

What do you get as a return for the cost of the extra incurred complexity?Let's just hope that an increased interest in "developping countries" at Redmond will change the perception of VFP or VFP look-alikes. And not too late.

From this forum, the UT I get the impression that a few distinctively techie and vocal users (MVP!) have moved to the new MS platform. Does that mean that the "rank and file" will move "en masse"? I doubt it and I can see no reason for doing so myselft. Not a single good one. Except the "me too" argument.

In the meantime everybody can pay a visit to the dabo project (for those who have not).

François