Hi Mike,

I've been watching this thread for a while and your one statement here, "375,000 - 500,000 is still a pretty insignificant number in MS eyes ", made me think of a point that doesn't seem to have been stated by anyone yet. The majority of developers in VFP today have come the route of FoxPro or other xBASE languages with a small percentage of new developers. New developers look at all the M$ hype of VB and the non-existent marketing of VFP an decide VB is the way to go - I know I would if I was them. Kind of a chicken and the egg type idea isn't it? M$ puts more into VB than VFP because of the developer base size difference, yet this difference has been caused by M$.

My $0.02 Cdn. worth which is actually worth crap lately :-)

>> You are pessimistic in the sense, sorry to say it, but that's the sense of your message. It is MS that did say 10% of VS users are using VFP which is beyond their expectations and it's growing further. Looking at UT Forum alone, lots of beginners are coming in, and most of them are FP, DBASE, CLIPPER guys.
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>All of these figures are true, but my impression is that it will still have little impact on the future. 375,000 - 500,000 is still a pretty insignificant number in MS eyes IMHO. Q: Also, why are the dBase, Clipper, etc. customers coming to VFP? A: Because their vendors already pretty much bailed on XBase technology or failed in their attempts to bring it into Windows and make it OO.
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>> It sounds like VFP has better functionality than VB, but the reality is VB has been around since early 90's as compare to VFP which is mid 95.
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>In some areas, not all, this has been discussed to death. If MS wants VB to have any functionality that's available in VFP they certainly can add it in and I expect they will.