>I can already see some Xbase younger brother raising into VFP successor and running VFP apps smooth under some cool/stable Linux Distro <vbg>

I really hope so... but I cant see nothing like that happening in linux world.
The very best aproach to xBase that I saw, was CLIP .. a clipper clone (a very good one by the way).
There is nothing (as far as I know) similiar in linux world :-(
People usualy say that linux is more expensive for small company's that windows, I dont agree, if the objective is to have spreadsheet, word processor and a app that makes invoices and so... i dont see how can it be more expensive.