>I attribute VFP's demise to the death of Xbase. Once that standards committee closed down - that was it.

That sounds like a good thing, to me. It lets Microsoft take VFP in directions it would have trouble following if it had to devote obviously limited resources to tracking a standard.

>You know the old saying - "If coulda, woulda, shoulda where beans and rice - I could feed the world..."

And if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas. :)