Hi Alejandro...

>I think MS brought Fox to get rid of a dangerous competitor and to get us, the >developers.

A possible competitor to Access, perhaps. Dangerous, I am not so sure about that. But, Fox still had the xBase baggage to deal with. By 1992, it was too late. If anything was going to happen, it needed to happen in 88 or 89.

>In a way, from MS point of view VFP is too good. It doesn't need SQL server, which is a truly profitable product...

I am sorry, I just don't see this point. VFP and SQL Server are two very different products. To compare them is like comparing apples and oranges. SQL Server has capabilities not found in VFP. VFP is a database app development environment. SQL Server is an RDBMS - period. The two are complimentary - not substitutes...