>>In case you hadn't noticed FoxPro isn't exactly a shining beacon of fresh new progress.

Speak for yourself. ;-)

FWIW, IMHO VFP is a rational choice in 2013 for any customer who may need stuff installed on older machines with 1gb RAM and a 500K image of a pink dragon as their wallpaper, or onto a new minimalist low power system, or similar. A more rational technical decision would be Delphi or C++, both of which have the same challenges in 2013, including difficulty finding capable/available developers.

Our real problem is that grandpa box vendors have cheerfully assumed that churn will last forever and that if they build it, the punters will continue queuing to buy- but the MS experience with its two most recent OS (W8 and WP) confirms that those days are over. My current notebook deliberately is a machine that hopefully will last me until I swap for a version of Google Glass in a year or three. Meantime when people do buy, it's more likely to be an updated Android smartphone than a slate or other grandpa box.

If you accept that, then Lianja takes on great new importance for anybody who sees value in VFP code and likes the thought of "fresh new progress." Hank Fay is giving presentations about Lianja at SWFox, I'll be going to those.