Jim,

I think that MS is not willing to promote VFP because: It will burden the sales of SQL-server. They now will say "Hey if Access is too limiting you should look for SQL-server". As we all know, from a commercial point of view SQL-server is far more important than VFP, certainly if we look into the future when a major battle is going to take place (SQL-Server vs Oracle).

I think, in many cases where a Server RDBMS is used, you could replace the system with VFP without many difficulties.

On the other hand, i don't think they will drop VFP. the VFP community is strong and still (believe it or not) growing. Just look at the other XBase languages: VFP is the only one which future is relatively sure. Clipper, Visual Objects an DBASE already died, Visual DBASE will follow soon in my opinion.

Just my fl 0,02

Regars, Walter