>One person who I'm surprised hasn't posted any sort of follow-up was John Peterson. Anyone who attended his sessions, I would appreciate an objective critique, just to see if John is as good as he thinks he is.

I don't read all the messages on the UT, but there appears to be a perception problem in the interpretation of some of John's message posts and who he is and how he thinks. Independent of what people on the UT might have misunderstood about John in some message, I'll add my comments from talking to him at conferences, seeing him speak, and from working with him directly with the VFP team at Microsoft. The thing to remember is that every speaker brings a certain personality to a session, and different speakers bring various expertise to the conference. There isn't anyone who can speak on every topic for example, technology is too complex now days.

And just to clarify for lurkers of this thread, John has expertise in several areas, especially ADO. Looking at the Advisor web site and the session list by speaker, you'll notice that John is the ONLY speaker with 3 sessions (all others have 1 or 2). His sessions are on SQL Server and ADO, all 300 and 400 level (advanced). It is irrelevant how good John thinks of himself. What matters is what the community, Microsoft, etc. thinks of what he knows and how he speaks, and there is simply nothing but positive reaction from those qualified to comment. I also know that he is receptive to criticism like myself, and appreciates constructive/valid feedback always looking to improve. John and I are buffs when it comes to movie quotes. In case he reads this message, here is a quote for him take from Young Frankenstein:

Dr. Frankenstein: "You know, I'm a rather brilliant surgeon, I can fix that hump of yours?"
Igor: "What hump?"

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>Finally, what sort of rumors (or rumor control) were circulating at the conference? Any news of VFP 7.0, or even a patch for 6.0 to clear up some of the C0000005 crashes? Any comments on the future of VFP, the incessant Fox-is-dead rumors, or any fallout from the aborted VFPDA effort here?
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At FoxTeach during the keynote, an upcoming version of VFP (to be released soon) was shown allowing you to create mutli-threaded DLLs, use a new Session base class (light weight private datasession class, no UI), use the COMPILE command at runtime, etc. This has nothing to due with a new utility posted on the FoxPro web site called the VFPCOM Utility. There is development ongoing for VFP at Microsoft beyond what I just mentioned, and I expect that answers your questions/concerns.