Hey Ken. We may just have to agree to disagree on this one. I don't believe that what Pat is experiencing is (necessarily) political correctness.... by the way, I have been burned by improper bad-VFP attitudes -- like, 2 days ago, in fact, when a potential client and I decided to go separate ways because he (thinks he) wants a C++ based system. So I am not saying that the attitude doesn't exist, I just think that in this particular case the issue is complicated:

Here's what I mean. At one point, you said:
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The IT people resisted because the solution was a VFP backend. This is a disservice to that company's users. The IT department should identify problems with using the proposed app(if any) then work to solve the problems, not reject them out of hand.
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But here's a line from the original post:
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Here is one of their statements: "Many of these vertical market type apps have a single user or low-end version built on something like FoxPro or Access. We prefer a more robust, enterprise type version built on something like SQL Server."
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I've got to tell you, they have a point! Many vertical market apps do indeed have low-end versions built on FP or Access, and frequently these are not as robust as a SQL Server solution. In other words, I don't think this is political correctness alone at work. Now, if they had said "this is an old-fashioned language and we want something new and object oriented" or something like that, you would *definitely* have a point. Since Pat was looking for advice and input, my assumption is that there is still a chance of persuading the department otherwise (although I will admit the original post made it sound as if there was an uphill battle ahead).

I just think that in this case, many UTers are having knee-jerk responses -- understandable, since there have been years of bed press and misstatements about Visual FoxPro. But I am not convinced yet that the IT department is acting so irrationally in being concerned about an FP back-end product.