>>It took MS until August of 1996 to release a much better VFP 5.

Yes, VFP 5 was the game changer that moved my conservative butt off Fox 2.6.
I never considered VFP 3 to be a serious tool for demanding applications.
However, equally important in my decision to move were the advents of Windows 95 and Windows NT.
In addition to its other issues, a problem with VFP3 was that it only ran on Windows and Windows, prior to Win 95, was an unstable client environment to say the least.