>>So, how about DBA skills, project management, scoping expertise, domain expertise? Do you have a special skill that Jordan Machine Co values for business rather than IT reasons? Can you convert that into a management/oversight role? Maybe the best way to secure your future is to promote yourself as the expert providing business guidance to programmers who may be in the next room or across the world but don't understand the business as you do.
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>>If you do decide to learn NET, it's not so difficult. These days it's widely recognized that you can leverage your VFP skills into NET by focusing on some key data principles beyond which it's mostly syntax. Some VFP people are productive within days using ASP.NET.
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>>Anyway, good luck! BTW, I was in Birmingham in June and had some perty good barbeque. ;-)

I have been worried about Fox's viability since it was purchased by MS, but I have never left it. Along the way, I took any course I could in other areas/technologies from Supporting Nt Server, 2000 server, 2003 server to java, python, dreamweaver, dot net, etc, etc, etc. I can't see throwing VFP away (ever), but the borg has already decided to let it starve to death, so you control what you can. It's not like we have a choice. In this business, the "next big thing" may wipe out the way we do things in the next few months. Who would have thought the internet would be as pervasive as it is today in 1996?