>>>>>>Is FoxPro dead? No.
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>>>>>Not the first time Microsoft misinforms itself :).
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>>>>Exactly, Professor.
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>>>And on January 15th next month, Visual FoxPro 9.0 standard support will end at Microsoft. But nothing will really be differnet on January 16th and beyond. Who uses Microsoft support for technical questions about VFP anyway. :)
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>>BINGO! Besides no customer needs to know what the platform is.
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>Depends on the customer - lots are technology-savvy or at least think they are. If they are technology-savvy, pushing VFP is usually a losing battle.
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>I still have VFP applications in the field for retail applications (they use SQL Server for database of course). Generally small retailers don't care how you get there as long as you get there.
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>I will be converting all that will continue to be marketed to .NET next year.

As I recall, VFP converts to C and compiles. So tell them it's C. There will still be a huge market for stand alone apps or distributed apps the access a server that you control.