>Microsoft always seems to do better with the commercial/home market than it
>does with mainstream business applications. VFP (which is a rather spectacular
>tool for developing business apps) got sidelined.
>
>Recently, MS announced that they wanted to compete with IBM for Enterprise business
>apps. I wonder whether anyone there has the sense to see that VFP could be an
>important part of solutions in that area and is not just .NETs poor relation.

My bet is that MSFT will push Navision, which they purchased a few years ago. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/default.mspx