Hiya Jeff ---

Well thought out post. Let me put my spin on it: In my experience, people don't look at VB as an enterprise solution. Maybe for a simple front-end for simple data entry or reporting, but not brute force processing and critical DP. I think the quality of VB programmers has degraded over time and there are a lot of VB developers out there won't can't see out of the VB box.

I think, perceptually, that it's wrong to think of VB as a competing platform. I think we should be looking at PowerBuilder, Prolifics, and Oracle tools as competition. There are high-end markets that VB would be laughed out of where VFP has a fighting chance.