>Russian proverb says - you said real true, your mouth is full of honey. ( or something like this)
>I agree with all you have said.
>If Net had same power for working with data like it VFP has, who could hesitate to leave VFP right now with easy heart.
>At old place of work we wrote 14 accounts projects ( salary, accounts, store, trade etc). At new place we supports 12 existing projects. (all VFP) All these work each day. How fast could we replace it on the code, wriiten, lets say on C++?
>If I try to do it, in week or so I shall be simply fired. The bosses need bussines working each day , but not misterious NET science exploration.
>When manager has problem with one of this soft, we fix it in minutes.
>In opposite case company loose money and they find somebody else to keep it working in the stability of The Sun light.
>When and how we shall be able to do it on NET. I learn it 3 years, can do something ( pretty complex forms) , but not able to reproduce 26 existing projects.

Most likely existing VFP applications will work as long as Vista is not replaced by the next MS OS. In other words we have 4-5 final years, and in software world it's a long time.