>>Having to retool and rewrite with technology advances is what keeps most of us in business. Do you use a rotary phone and a party line or have you progressed every few years with everyone else and had to relearn and reload a new phone?
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>That is the dumbest comment I've read in this post. When you change phones, you simply go out and buy a new one start using it. Perhaps you are somewhat handicapped when it comes to changing phones.
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>How can you compare that to the re-writing an application that has taken 3 or 4 years to write and may take 3 or 4 years to convert, not counting the time it takes to learn the new development language?
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>Besides, I thought I was keeping up by upgrading to each new version of VFP whenever they came out. It is my opinion that what MS has done is almost criminal and I don't associate with criminals.

So if you were a telephone (rather than a software) manufacturer and had invested large amounts of time perfecting rotary dial phones you would continue to do so and hope no-one noticed the touch tone, cordless, video capable, answering machine equiped models alongside it on the shelf? (g,d&r)