Jonathan,

>Any mention of VFP 10, or we are just going to be getting SP2, SP3... based on Sedna ?

There is nothing new in the overall plan for VFP. There will be an SP2 sometime next year, probably around the same timeframe as Sedna. Sedna's primary purposes are to extend VFP9's capabilities in areas of interoperability with .NET, Vista, Office.Next and so forth, as well as some functionality improvements in some of the VFP9 tools and classes.

The technical goals for Sedna are to accomplish as many of those goals as they can without touching the "core bits" of the VFP9 executable. This means adding new libraries in bolt-on DLLs to add new commands or functions to the language via SET LIBRARY TO, providing new or upgraded class libraries (such as FFC classes) or "xBase" components, and so forth.

SP2 will address bugs as well as possibly make a few changes to the core bits to enable the scenario I described in the previous paragraph. In other words, while adding new features through add-ons, they may come up against a technical limitation in the core and perhaps need to add a "hook" or expose a new core function to allow the non-core add-on code to tie in properly.

You can refer to my interview with Ken Levy and Alan Griver last year, which goes in-depth into VFP's future and the architectural decisions related to Sedna:

http://foxcentral.net/microsoft/VFPDevCon2005_Interview_AlanGriver_KenLevy.htm