>>Is your client large enough that they would like to hire me to come on board as a VFP developer, and in the process, complete Visual FreePro for them so they can have a maintainable VFP9-like engine?
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>Hi Rick,
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>Unfortunately, probably not because a) they have to keep paying me :-) which they already have told me to "can you keep your hours down below x" and b) they have made it clear that they want a "mainstream" language the next time (if there is such a thing) that has a large developer pool out there - they are concerned that most VFP developers are my age or better (with maybe a few younger ones around - but not many).

Understood.

Visual FreePro plans to be a .NET-like implementation of a VFP9-like engine running on a new VM (called VVM). It plans to be extended out to include other languages as well (including C# ironically, as well as Java and a C/C++-like language). It plans about 80% source code compatibility with VFP9, and probably 95% of the normal functions most apps use.

Visual FreePro, Jr. plans to be a true VFP9-like creation that runs natively on Windows (without a virtual machine) and is nearly 100% source code compatible with VFP9.