>Hi Evan ----
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>>I have seen evidence that this is 10 to one. 5,000,000 to 500,000. This is from reading various white papers on the MS site. Of course... I don't have the links. Perhaps this ratio isn't so bad. VFP is a specialty tool for databases while VB is touted as being a jack-of-all-trades.
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>I think the ratio is somewhat irrelevent. How many good VisualInterDev or VJ++ developers are there? At least one of these groups probably has fewer developers than VFP yet MS markets the hell out of them because they are specialized and don't threaten VB (much).
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>I think that the main concern on MS part is marketshare fraticide. Meaning, we know that VFP is a great general-purpose business development language, right?
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>If MS pushed VFP with that in mind, where would the converts come from? From VB or potential VB developers and MS gains --nothing--. Mind you, I'm only playing devil's advocate.

M$ is scared of VFP. It's a product that they sell that COMPETES with EVERY OTHER product that they sell. They just don't quite know what to do with it for fear that it will reduce their sales in other markets.