>>For businesses offering solutions to vertical markets. VFP is still a viable development environment.
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>>That's hotly debatable - I have direct knowledge where vendors lost sales because their vertical market application used Fox. (In some cases, it was because the application used Fox for data storage...in other cases, even though the VFP app worked with SQL Server, the vendor still lost business).
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>>There may be factors that will improve the odds of getting a sale of a VFP app (how much or how little the app will interface with other aspects of the business) - but I can tell you with certainty that potential customers are more likely to look at the development tool for the vertical app than they were, say, 7-10 years ago.
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>Yeah very debatable. I think if you had a VFP app and a .NET app that both do pretty much the same thing then I would expect businesses to want the .NET version.

So much of this is influenced by your market. When we were a VFP shop, hardly anyone asked or cared what the app was written in. Heck, most of them would not have ever thought to ask the question. In the 12 years I was the lead, the issue was raised exactly once (out of > 800 paying clients).

What they wanted was software that worked and good support (we knew their business, provided an 800 number and English was our first language).