>>>1. Loss of our best & brightest (primarily framework developers/vendors) as they shift focus to creating products for VB.
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>>The thing is, starting to learn VB or Delphi or whatsoever as another tool in the arsenal, you will still go back and love VFP the more.
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>For me, personally, you could be right. However, I fear that top VFP people will go where the opportunity is. Good people are very adaptable.

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>>>2. Loss of new entrants to VFP.
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>>This isn't true, DICE.COM and other job sites shows increasing no. of VFP job demands.
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>Nice if true; could you be more specific? Has there been any realistic analysis done on this?

No formal analysis reference, just my observation. Try to browse dice.com with search keywords 'FOXPRO', compare it daily and you will see the number increasing.

gwconsulting.com - last year, 1 to 2 every month but today it consistently growing. This consulting doesn't recruit VFP last 2 years ago but now they do.