>Let's remember that after M$ bought Fox Software, they did very little to promote it and very little to kill the idea that they were going to kill it.

You know, that's really nonsense. MSFT poured a major effort into VFP 3 and there was marketing and advertising. The "do nothing" marketing came much later.

If Microsoft's goal when they bought Fox in 1992 was killing the product, they did a really bad job of it, given that it's now 15 years later and we're still getting one more interim release. If all they wanted was the technology, they didn't need to ship 6 major versions.

Tamar