Unfortunately, pushing VFP will never happen. Your picture of the market place is inaccurate. Corporations, looking for Enterprise Solutions, started dumping Foxpro as a supported platform at least 10 yrs ago.

75% of my working career has been as a full-time employee of a medium to large company. Prior to 10 yrs ago, anytime I sent my resume to recruiters, I was told I was an ideal candidate, and received many calls within weeks of sending out my resume.

Starting 10 yrs ago, I stated getting messages from recruiters that most VFP calls they received were for maintenance work on a VFP app while it was being re-written in another language. Now VFP job postings are few and far between.

You mention the experience of VFP developers. That is inaccurate based on my experience. At my current gig, we have posted openings several times. The results have been extremely mediocre. The quality of resumes has been very poor. For a position I was responsible for, any resume that looked good, also included some experience with dotnet. And the candidate found a dotnet position.

You also mention VFP developers who have lots of experience. There are many older developers who do work with VFP. Unfortunately, the are typically independent consultants who have little to no experience working on a team. These candidates are poor fits in an Enterprise scenario.

>I know that they have a habit of pushing anything other than VFP. Nothing new.
>(But am I really "wrong" or is it just that MS won't agree...)
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>IMHO VFP holds its weight technically against any other language. In some areas
>its still ahead of anything else that MS offers. Plus, there are a lot of talented
>VFP developers who've got a lot of experience (very often going all the way back to
>dBASE days) with custom business systems.
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>I would think that somebody with 15 years experience in VPF might be a lot more
>effective (and attractive to larger cliens) than someone with 2 years of experience
>with something else.
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>VFP works well with SQL Server. And for environments like Citrix/Windows
>Terminal Server it's just about perfect - pretty much the same architecture as a
>LAN - exactly where VFP is at its best.
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>I don't see why putting a couple of things together like that wouldn't make a very
>effective platform for many kinds of big enterprise app.