>Who did you talk to that said, "use another product?" What was their job? Was their compensation based on sales of products? Did they have sales quotas to meet? I'm not saying what they did was right, but they may have had their own compensation as their biggest interest. There are lots of things at play that could have caused that response.

As crazy as this will sound...

When I worked at MS FoxPro as a contractor from VFP 3.0a through VFP 6 SP3 I heard directly from Ricardo Wenger, the manager at the time, that we were making VFP 6 so that FoxPro programmers could migrate to VB.

Like I said, it sounds crazy and it doesn't make any sense, but when he told me that it was well after Toad Nielsen put the kabash on FoxPro and whittled the team from, god, something like 30+ people down to 8 full timers and like about 6 contractors. After every product ship, we were always wondering whether there was going to be another.

My impression when Ricardo told me that was that he had been told that by the higher ups. Sure, today it sounds odd since MS and mostly the VFP Team on their own managed to ship 7,8 and 9.