>Thomas, IMHO it would be very helpful to people (and ? worth spending $?) to receive an article about viable mechanisms for continued use of VFP. Not because I want to keep using it no matter what, but because having that sort of information helps make decisions. It's a bit like the old "draw a line down a page and put the Pros on the left and the Cons on the right." Sometimes when you do that, a decision is staring you in the face. In this case the decision may well be that none of the available options are viable. Or the decision may be that the NET compiler is already good enough that people are willing to wait a bit longer, or that VFP can be kept on the server for another x years while the front-ends are re-done using wpf or FOTM 2009 or whatever. Right now we get to hear from adamant people with various preferences but there isn't much "evidence" to help people make their own choices. That's all. If a magazine is for the wider community then I would see that as a useful service.

In case of WS I regularly have to decide on which path to follow - and the decision matrix is filled a bit differently for each client. While the pro and con are ususally distributed along similar lines, the weight might be off. Not easy to handle in a semi-neutral way appropriate for an article geared for a *larger* range of scenarios.

regards

thomas