Jeff,

>MS has always been afraid that pushing FP and VFP would erode marketshare for their VB franchise. Anyone who believes, (despite what MS says) that they (MS)are firmly committed to increasing VFPs marketshare regardless of it's impact on VB - is NUTZ.

You think it's VB ? I think VFP could gain a little of the MS - SQL martket. This martket is even more valueable then the VB share.

>They are pushing VFP just hard enough to satisfy the VFP community but well short of what it would take to broaden it's usage, or increase it's mindshare. MS should see to it that kids coming along see VFP as a contender, a viable alternative (spare me the Visual Studio everybody works together song and dance) to VB that is superior in many ways.

I agree, to some extent, I wht way's do you think VB is superior ??? I can think of many areas where VFP kicks the buts of VFP:
- Native Database
- Database Flexibity and performance
- OOP
- OOP
- OOP
- and last but not least OOP
to name a few.

Yeah, I think this sounds old and boring, but: Use the right tool for the right job (and you are comfortable with it).

Walter,