>>It is a serious PITA to do data-intensive apps in .Net .... BUT... it's a recognized limitation and work is being done to alleviate that.
>Do you feel the next version of .Net will be good enough to entice VFP developers or do you think it's further down the road.

IMHO the business pressure behind LINQ and SQL/w (everyWhere) is not from the tiny group of vfp programmers fenced in by legions of Dotnet. Consider that java is given a java source database in SUN's next implementation and Python 2.5 (targeted within the next 3 Month) has all the interface classes for SQlite (which I view as a more SQL-leaning *embedded* database) in the "batteries included" approach.

regards

thomas