Since the thread drifted from Bernie to golf, I might as as well take in another direction :). If and when you retire, what happens to the customers to whom you sold a vertical application written in VFP (I presume that you have a vertical app, as many of us here. But I am mistaken, then the question is moot)?

Obviously I am asking because I don't know what will happen to my customers when I no longer can support them.

I just resigned from a company that produces a vertical market app but I would never abandon them. I am staying on as a contractor - less stress. I have a few clients that still use the custom software that I wrote for them but, for the most part, I have just installed the apps and they work. I have one client that I installed the app for in 2006 and have only heard from him once when he upgraded to Windows 7 and upgraded his version of Office. The only vertical market app that I have ever worked on was the one that I worked on as full time permanent staff. I have another small client that I hear from when she needs new functionality. That is it.