>>>In case you hadn't noticed FoxPro isn't exactly a shining beacon of fresh new progress.
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>Speak for yourself. ;-)
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>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.

Creating a new app in VFP is a rather risky thing if you ask me. For what you're describing - a small mom & pop company with outdated machines - well sure I can see using it there, but they too will eventually upgrade to newer machines as they're so cheap these days so it seems you would be doing them a dis-service by giving them such an app in this day-and-age. Even so VFP won't be supported by MS much longer I think 1/13/2015 ends the extended support - and a lot of companies do not want to be in such a position. As far as finding developers - I assure you there are a LOT MORE C++ or C# developers avail than foxpro developers. The language is dying so the number of developers avail drop as they're all moving their skills to other languages. Now all that being said - I can still see practical uses for VFP - like data conversions for example - but giving someone a band new desktop app written in VFP in middle of 2013? I dunno if that's such a good idea.

>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. When people do buy, it's more likely to be an updated Android smartphone rather than a slate or other grandpa box.
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>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.