I'm in the same boat as you Hilmar. Me too I find more and more difficult to follow all the new technologies thrown at us and learning a new language isn't that easy. But I feel that if I don't get at it very soon, my value to enterprises will diminish over time.

>Well, I for one find it difficult to learn a new language. It requires a major investment, especially in time, and perhaps money too. There is a need to learn lots of new concepts, different ways of doing things. I am starting to feel old, and "like butter spread over too much bread" (Tolkien).
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>It would be very pleasant to be able to continue working with VFP, but it seems this can't be. (Or perhaps I can keep busy in my old days, maintaining legacy applications, and doing some other work such as teaching computer networks or translations, and leave the new languages for younger people!)
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>It has been clear for quite a while that I should learn some new languages, or several. Years ago, I was thinking about Delphi, later about Visual Basic. Interestingly, both of these have been discontinued earlier than Visual FoxPro.
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>But the point is still valid, it is quite necessary to learn new tools. Perhaps I do manage to take some time to learn something new, now that I no longer work permanently at Bata/Bolivia (and teaching at the Cisco Academy doesn't take too much time).
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>But I wonder what would be a good choice. .NET, I think, is a little too much oriented towards Windows (VFP even more so, of course). Java perhaps, that's quite multiplatform. Sure, I know .NET will "in theory" also work in different platforms. No need to repeat that.
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>Over here, they talk a lot about PHP and Perl. Might be interesting options, too, but I have almost no idea what it is all about.