>You know, I think this statement is unfair in the extreme. No offense, but if it was just about the money, then FoxPro would have been cancelled shortly after it served the purpose of killing Borland (at the time). And that was when? Close to a decade ago? Many products in this industry don't have a decade of total life span.

Now that the product is finished and it doesn't matter, I would like to hear the real, detailed story of Foxpro at Microsoft. At first Microsoft was advertising the product and put a large number of developers on VFP3, so as some cynics say, Microsoft just didn't buy the product to get the technology and kill it. There seems to have been some sense of keeping it (at first).