>I personally think that the days of programming everything yourself are numbered
>whether that is VFP or .NET. The future of developing database apps is much more
>in development environments like WinDev, Servoy, Lianja and others. Those application
>frameworks are much more productive as the provisions of e.g. cross platform,
>windows/browser development, support for tablet/smartphones, security, cloud based
>computing etc come out of the box. Sure there will be applications that are more suitable
>from ground up but I'm convinced the majority will be written in such application
>development platforms. And rather than worrying about the datatypes to keep the
>compiler happy, focus will be much more on the what? rather than how?


I agree completely. Nearly every non-Enterprise app will move that way.