Of course. But seemingly a lot of people seem to think they need to wear this stuff on their sleeve and advertise it. With a jQuery or jQuery Mobile front end, and a backend that works flawlessly, many customers won't really care that the back end is in VFP.

Now if we're talking traditional desktop applications (which are dying btw), it's a different story since people are directly dealing with whatever technology you're offering up.

>>>there is NO technical reason somebody has to jump ship to .NET or, god forbid, PHP.
>
>This is the land of the free and the home of the brave- no one HAS to do anything except pay taxes.
>Rather, the question for me was what skills do I need to best:
>1- be marketable
>2- meet the demands of my clients over the next few years.
> .NET looked like a good choice, so I invested a few months of learning and it still looks like it was a good choice.
>I still do a lot of VFP but all new development is in .NET.
>Were those reasons technical? Of course not. But I don't pay bills with technical currency.
>They made good business sense to me.