>>OK, after all these ‘nay you’re wrong’ arguments, what is your vision of today’s and future situation...

FWIW, I made a decision to move all development away from MS/to the web in 1995 when Sigler damned VFP3 with faint praise. I was too early: in those days, Javascript couldn't even print and one of the releases of IE3 severely broke our Javascript code, forcing customers to manually implement a MS fix patch.

In 2018 I'm doing stuff for multi-monitor Windows desktop. There are other niches that won't move to web such as CAD and large design surfaces where mobile would be absurd and Windows remains a really functional option.

Current plan is to offer customers an appliance = NUC with Windows Server Essentials or Standard using customer cals plus application suite. In testing, VFPA apps take a few seconds to cross the wire and run on the local machine. It means the customer need only provide power, network and domain access and the users can run their apps immediately.

Would this work for everybody? I doubt it. But there are many ways to skin a cat and nobody has a monopoly on good ideas. What I am sure of, is that not rewriting apps every few years in the current development environment du jour, is worth millions of dollars. I'm also a believer that quality and standardization are linked, so that the furious pace of change in development is anti-quality and of no purpose to anybody except people who earn their living perpetually rewriting or even just learning how to rewrite which then becomes an excuse for low productivity.