One of my customers is afraid of letting us develop an application for him using VFP. He has good experience with our software company, using another tool, and he knows we can get the job done using VFP.

When VFP3 came out he refused to use it since it was a new tool. Also, he received a BAD opinion from a well known consulting group.
He asked : "What is the positioning of Microsoft Visual Foxpro 3.0 ?"
They answered : "... The product does include limited multi-user capabilities ... The underlying data management technology is simply not robust enough for any application serious enough to require multi-user support ... We would urge you to consider appropriate client/server development tools"

Now, I am trying to convince him to use VFP5 for a new application.
Again, he consulted the same group and was told that VFP is going to be discontinued after 5.0 .
Sure - we have all heard those rumors for quit a while.

HELP ME IF YOU CAN -- I am trying to gather as much information as possible to convince him that his consultant is wrong.