>When you start talking about companies with several thousands of employees, these companies usually have several different types of systems in place. They need a language that will talk to these systems and a language that the vendors of these systems know and trust. That's one to the reasons why VFP gets a bad rap in this type of environment.

And these are the sort of companies that all the marketing is focused on.

There are still lots of independent developers that build systems for small business.

I have heard managers of large companies say that what matters most is can they find programmers and developers when they need them? The schools are training with VB. The quality of the tool doesn't matter as long as it works.

It takes a special company to accept VFP as their development tool. The quality of the tool doesn't rate as highly as other factors.

That's why I use VB at work (VFP when I can!) and I do private consulting projects strictly with VFP because I enjoy it way more!