>I sincerely doubt M$ will sell Fox because the same thing will happen ... it will compete with their existing products. I see .Net as nothing more than a way to trap people into using SQL Server. Why should a small business buy SQL Server and pay license fees if Visual Foxpro can do the same job with no distributed fees?

.NET does not require SQL Server. You can save to Access, .dbf's, Oracle, mySQL, etc., etc., etc.