>Every first release has bugs but at the time VFP3 was released, VB & PB were quite gained considerable stability.

ROFL! I was using VFP and PowerBuilder at the time; I abandoned it because of the waning interest in the product with my clients, and the vendor seemed more interested in adding features than fixing bugs. I've used VB, too. If people were going to abandon a tool because of bugs, the problems in VB6 were at least as dramatic as problems in VFP6. And VB's functionality at the time was nothing like the product on the shelf now with VBXs rather than ActiveX...