>I don't agree with you on this point. Lots of the concepts from VFP have made their way into the .NET tools and languages. LINQ is one example. And I'll bet that VFP has caused lots of SQL Server licenses to be sold.
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>>VFP is enemy of c# and MS SQL ;-)
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>>MartinaJ

I concur - VFP was not the enemy; the true enemy was the VFP Community. After VFP 6 was released many VFP developers stayed there and did not upgrade to 7, 8 or 9. From what I have read from those that were on the inside, it was the revenue drop (lack of sales) that doomed VFP as a continued product. Had the VFP developer community embraced each version and provided the revenue stream to MS it possibly would have continued. Any product that does not have the revenue stream will end -- no matter how 'good' it is.