>That is interesting, from my point of view there is a good
>future for the Fox language. But i think it has to be as good as it now is.
>We have developed also mission critical applicatons with Foxpro for years.
>My customers are happy with the stability.
>It is a shame that a company like Microsoft is earning milions and
>that they are destroying thousands of small companies. We are not able to
>recode everything in another language simply because we don't have the money and resources. It would take years.

Why are you so melodramatic? Nobody is "destroying" your business or the VFP language. Just because Microsoft could not justify investing millions in creating, testing, procducing a new version where there are no big features to be added to a mature language, so they can recoup their investment and make a profit, does not mean VFP stops being useful.

VFP is a great language. It works and it is useful now and will continue to be so for years to come. You cannot fault a company for making a business decision, to stop adding features to a non-strategic product (from their point of view). If you produced a vertical market app, and it stopped bringing revenue, you would most assuredly stop investing in new versions and continue selling it at the current release. MS will still offer it for sale, still be a part of MSDN subscriptions, and still offer support for several years.

Their decision may not be what you and I would prefer, but it's their business decision and I have to respect that. VFP was close to being stopped a few years ago. There were still many features to be added and due to community efforts, plus a great job from the small VFP Product Group kept it alive and gave use VFP 7,8,9. The SEDNA and community projects are still going on. Let's be realistic here.