Check out the Dabo framework which is an N-tier application framework written in Python by persons very familiar with VFP. It looks very interesting. Here is a description:

http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/papers/9/

Also consider the language Ruby and the associated framework Rails. Both suggestions are free open source, cross platform (read not just Windows) products.

>Ok, assume for the rest of this thread the .Net is not the way you are going for your future and you are forced to move from VFP. What language would this fine group of vfp programming experts move too?
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>John