>>Microsoft has been hinting for years that we should start looking at .Net. For years, many in the VFP community have been saying that eventually VFP would go away. It's not like the announcement from MS was a total surprise. If you weren't working on retooling, that's your fault.. not Microsoft's.

Sure, that's how they worked to kill sales so they could then use dead sales to justify the EOL decision. But perhaps one way you fight back is to not retool just because they "hint" about it. The rest of the IT community can put the ring through their nose and be led anywhere M$ says to go, but I'm going to be working with non-MS tools so that I don't have to play their little "now use this product, oh, we're killing that, now use this one, oh, guess what, now you have to change to this other one" game.