VFP has NOT been discontinued. You will still be able to buy for some time to come. There just won't be any updates to it.

>If you want to learn a dead language pick Latin. Despite what all the die hard VFP purest say you can develop and deploy applications just as quickly and with almost any database from .Net. And the bit about Mom and Pop shops not being able to afford a .Net app is just pure Bull. I’ve built small apps in VFP and In .NET.
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>You may also want to consider the fact that MS didn’t discontinue VFP for giggles and ha ha’s and they didn’t do it because it wasn’t making money it hasn’t in years. It is going to have problems working in future versions of windows. Some of the design choices the foxporo team made early on are going to give the product problem’s and or crippling disadvantages (having its own window manager for one).