>My only dissent with this point is that with VFP6 press and the MCSD cert. >news, I'm not sure it's "going away". We know for sure that there is a >Version 7 scheduled for late 2000 release. Let's assume that they don't have >a Version 8...we're still current through 2002-2003 or so, right? Besides, I >think MS likes to keep VFP around to try out new stuff (like the OOP switch).

How much more evidence do you need to see that VFP is NOT in a growing market? If a market is not growing - it is dying. Thats not to say that folks should not continue to use VFP - people should not only use VFP - they should upgrade to 6 because of the better COM support/ADO/MTS, etc. People should be taking time now to use thier VFP knowledge to acquire skills in other areas: VB/VJ/VI, etc.